ad blocking (again)

[Skye]

When is ad blocking going to be supported?

Fluid is a great idea but unusable for me (and most of my friends
agree) until ads can be blocked. I read the justification about how
sites depend on ad revenue, but I'm never EVER going to click on an ad
anyway, and until Fluid support this I'll just use Firefox or Safari
with adblock so its not like they're losing impressions. If you're
smart enough to install adblocking or turn it on, you're probably not
going to click on ads anyway.

For instance, Google apps are generally fine but Facebook and Yahoo
are unusable without adblocking...

I suppose I should feel guilty about using my Tivo to fast-forward
through commercials too?

Thanks,
Skye

[todd.dit...@gmail.com]

hi Syke.

On Jul 9, 5:47 pm, Skye <spo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When is ad blocking going to be supported?

to be blunt, never. Ad blocking will not appear as a feature of Fluid
itself.

that said, Fluid includes support for Userscripting and I'm certain
there are very large numbers of freely available ad-blocking
userscripts (That may or may not need tweaking to work in fluid) that
you can search for and use. Alternatively, you can develop your own ad-
blocker userscript and even share it with the Fluid community as much
as you would like. i would not mind at all.

but again, there will never be an ad blocking feature built directly
into fluid.

if you are unwilling or somehow unable to install an ad-blocking
userscript, and still cannot live with ads, then Fluid is not the
browser for you.

finally, i dont care what you do with your tivo -- but *do* i hope you
have a nice day :0]

Todd

[Brian Lalor]

On Jul 9, 2008, at 9:08 PM, todd.dit...@gmail.com wrote:

> but again, there will never be an ad blocking feature built directly
> into fluid.

Fair enough. I wonder about a plugin, however. I haven't looked at
the lifecycle of plugins, but you'd really want to do this kind of
thing before the page renders, I would think...

--
Brian Lalor / bla...@bravo5.org
Humanity is rife with enterprising idiots whose final words may
well have
been "hold my beer and watch this."

[Todd Ditchendorf]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Brian Lalor <bla...@bravo5.org> wrote:

Fair enough.  I wonder about a plugin, however.  I haven't looked at
the lifecycle of plugins, but you'd really want to do this kind of
thing before the page renders, I would think...

yes, a plugin is even more powerful than a userscript, and I'm certain you could do ad blocking in several different ways using a plugin. I encourage you to explore that idea:

http://fluidapp.com/developer

todd

[Skye]

OK, fair enough. Is there a 3rd party plugin directory other than:

http://fluidapp.com/plugins/

Before I fire up Xcode?

Skye

[Todd Ditchendorf]

nope. you'd be the first. be sure to grab the example plugin source (available from the developer page) to get started. 

good luck!

todd

 

Skye