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How to fight back against brainless advertising

Monday 8th October 2007 21:22 in Advertising, Technology

You know all those annoying banner ads all over your web browser? And those ones all over MSN Messenger? Did you ask to see them? I didn’t think so. Every time we go out and use public transport, even walk down the street, we are patronised by someone else’s usually impoverished idea of wit as they lie to us and try to manipulate us into buying whatever it is they have to sell. While all the time everybody knows that a really good product sells itself, and the best means of advertising is word of mouth.

They even get us in our home - but we can stop them there. TV stations are yet to broadcast a signal notifying your TV to mute itself and turn to a black screen while the vacuous adverts are on (which would be great), but fortunately there is little on the TV worth watching anyway, so our primary concern is stop these stupid adverts coming at us on the web. There are some excellent means to achieve this end:

  1. Ensure you are using Firefox web browser, the fastest and best.
  2. Install the Adblock Plus extension. You can right click on offending iframes and adverts to blank them, and if you subscribe to a service (free!) it even automatically blocks all known ads.
  3. Get the Mess Patch for your version of MSN Messenger, which enables you to totally configure the application and completely removes all advertising from it.

These measures will enable you to enjoy the peace of mind of ad-free surfing without idiots trying to make you buy things. Happy surfing! :)





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