Comments on: Gmail. Really? http://blog.mikebruckner.com/2009/04/23/gmail-really/ Welcome! Stay! Read my thoughts! Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:31:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Justin http://blog.mikebruckner.com/2009/04/23/gmail-really/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Justin Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:21:43 +0000 http://blog.mikebruckner.com/?p=162#comment-35 Firstly, let's put this into proper context: Google's ads are not at all bad, in fact they really do not create any annoyance whatsoever. I love Google for that, they popularized plain text ads when websites were running large flashy animated GIF banners announcing that you were the one millionth visitor and you were entitled to a cash prize (unfortunately, some sites still do this). Even better, the ads are all styled to blend in well with the page, so they wouldn't draw your attention if you were trying to do something else. If you're irritated enough by a list of unobtrusive links to stop using a vastly superior service altogether, then I think your irritation meter needs a new battery :) With that said, if you're manually blocking DIVs with AdBlock, you need to refine your methods :). AdBlock Plus will let you automatically stay in sync with a filter subscription, so I'd recommend you subscribe to Easy List. I do, and I get no ads in Gmail. It does more advanced Regex matching and other stuffs that I don't care enough to look into :) Or you can also just add this rule: .googleadservices.$~stylesheet Problem solved :) Firstly, let’s put this into proper context: Google’s ads are not at all bad, in fact they really do not create any annoyance whatsoever. I love Google for that, they popularized plain text ads when websites were running large flashy animated GIF banners announcing that you were the one millionth visitor and you were entitled to a cash prize (unfortunately, some sites still do this). Even better, the ads are all styled to blend in well with the page, so they wouldn’t draw your attention if you were trying to do something else. If you’re irritated enough by a list of unobtrusive links to stop using a vastly superior service altogether, then I think your irritation meter needs a new battery :)

With that said, if you’re manually blocking DIVs with AdBlock, you need to refine your methods :) . AdBlock Plus will let you automatically stay in sync with a filter subscription, so I’d recommend you subscribe to Easy List. I do, and I get no ads in Gmail. It does more advanced Regex matching and other stuffs that I don’t care enough to look into :)

Or you can also just add this rule:
.googleadservices.$~stylesheet
Problem solved :)

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