I mars hölls symposiet Webbdagarna i Stockholm – vad som närmast kan beskrivas som en toxisk blandning av idealistiska visioner, övertänd teknikentusiasm och krass kommersialism. Allt som klassats som sociala medier är positivt och demokratiskt. Alla som är klädda i t-tröja och jeans och levererar rappa självironiska repliker är automatiskt good guys – man verkar i en värld som, enligt webbdagarnas sluttalare och Sveriges mest profilerade sociala medier-profet Joakim Jardenberg, bör handla om strävan efter att göra ”good shit”. Sådana evenemang ger nätgiganterna legitimitet. Googles slogan ”Don’t be evil” uttrycker ett moraliskt anspråk och en självbild, och nätjättarnas största pr-prestation måste vara just att de lyckats profilera sin globala expansion och vinstjakt som en väckelserörelse.

Android Adblock is an open-source ad-blocking app that removes ads from websites you visit with your Android device. Install now so you can surf the web in peace!

This only came to light this week when some of my friends were asking about the virally spread link to Google and who Google thinks you are: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences . Some of my friends were shocked by the accuracy, others were amused by being a decade younger, or offended by being a decade older. Very few had the wrong sex. I can tell you what Google’s advertising preferences think of me: Nothing. This isn’t by magic, it’s just a by-product of the way I browse. I don’t leave any traces locally, and unless I log in to a service they don’t know who I am. Additionally, even if I log in to identity tracking services such as Google, Twitter or Facebook, then those services only see a very small view of what I do as I segregate such browsing from the rest of my use of the web. [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3550875 ]

Enhance Google search results and remove ads and spam.

You can disable this feature at any time. Click the Adblock Plus icon and choose "Filter Preferences" from the menu. Uncheck "Allow non-intrusive advertising" and you are done.

Current Adblock Plus versions allow you to "tweak" your filters in many different ways. This document explains the choices that you have and how they can be used.

Blocks ads using the Firefox AdBlock Plus filter engine. Kiss ads goodbye and browse in peace!

"We are an advertising company." Google is not a search engine; it is the most powerful commercialising force on the internet.

Introduction to my current project, Unlogo. We are at the beginning of a very big job, but we are making progress. "I was impressed until I saw this video on the same page http://vimeo.com/14531292 It's the same video. It says it was made using After Effects. Their own example is a fake."

Smutefy is a small menu bar application that automatically detects and mute Spotify ads.
Start Smutefy by double clicking it in your Applications folder. Smutefy will put an icon in the right side of your menu bar. When some ad is detected by the application, the icon will change his color and will mute the system sound until the ad finishes.

I was reading about yet another wave of attacks exploiting a Flash vulnerability. It turned out that the Flash vulnerability used was already fixed but that doesn’t really matter — Adobe seems incapable of updating users to a secure Flash version in a timely fashion. So Firefox users were at risk here as well, and the continuing waves of SQL Injection attacks inserting malicious iframes into trusted websites didn’t exactly make the situation better.

Over the last few months I’ve noticed an annoying trend on various web sites, generally major newspaper and magazine sites, but also certain weblogs. What happens is that when you select text from these web pages, the site uses JavaScript to report what you’ve copied to an analytics server and append an attribution URL to the text.

We’ve seen a lot of feedback regarding the text that gets added to the bottom of email messages sent from Hotmail and some other email providers. In the image above, you can see an example of this text, “Hotmail goes with you. Get it on your BlackBerry or iPhone.” We call this text a tagline, and we’d like to address this pretty simply – we’re getting rid of it.

Enhance Google search results and remove ads and spam.

Stops behavioral advertising by 90 different companies who quietly track you as you surf the Web. Do you want to prevent your past Web surfing behavior from being used by advertisers? Download TACO now.

Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won't get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click on...

That should be a Doom II tribute. The original didn't have the super shotgun.

An adblock extension for Google Chrome.

Two Greco-Roman wrestlers. Interesting. If they were elderly Greco-Roman wrestlers, that might be a pitch for those new growth-hormone supplements, but you're too young for that. You're sure they were Greco-Roman? There's an ad with women in Mexican wrestling masks for a pill treating stress incontinence. I suggest patients avoid pro wrestling for a few months before trying that particular pill.

You'll think this is an SNL spoof, but rest assured it is real. Sad as that is.

PeerGuardian is no longer an active project. PeerBlock is a PeerGuardian fork. PeerBlock lets you control who your computer "talks to" on the Internet. By selecting appropriate lists of "known bad" computers, you can block communication with advertising or spyware oriented servers, computers monitoring your p2p activities, computers which have been "hacked", even entire countries! They can't get in to your computer, and your computer won't try to send them anything either. And best of all, it's free!

Time and time again, Leica has made history with its superior quality cameras and lenses. And, each time, the innovations and developments made throughout the company's history have always been - and will always be - committed to one single aim: Uncompromising quality dedicated solely to the creation of a perfect image.
Please join us as Leica begins a new chapter in photography and tune in to the live webcast on September 9th to witness the unveiling of the next generation of Leica Cameras.

“Peter” in this case is the Facebook user logged in to his account. The woman in the “Hot Singles” ad is his own wife. According to Facebook, these ads “respect all privacy rules.” Personally, I think it’s just a nice obvious bit of proof that Facebook is truly sleezy under all the pretty blue makeup. Luckily there is a quick and easy opt-out for this nonsense, steps follow.

Meet exciting singles in the year 1990.

Reklamfiltret är en lista med regler som används för att rensa bort reklam från i första hand svenska webbplatser. För att kunna använda filtret behöver du först hämta Adblock Plus. Vi rekommenderar att reklamfiltret körs i kombination med EasyList som kan väljas när Adblock startas första gången. Om du missade det så kan du börja prenumerera på Easylist genom länken nedan.

Nore Norolds femte långfilm Bekännelsen.

What followed was a small war — the website would add various tricks to prevent Adblock Plus with EasyList from blocking ads, EasyList kept adjusting filters. Then, a week ago a new NoScript version was released. A few days later I noticed first bug reports — apparently, Adblock Plus “glitches” were observed with this NoScript version, especially around NoScript’s domains (but not only those). When I investigated this issue I couldn’t believe my eyes. NoScript was extended by a piece of obfuscated (!) code to specifically target Adblock Plus and disable parts of its functionality. The issues caused by this manipulation were declared as “compatibility issues” in the NoScript forum, even now I still didn’t see any official admission of crippling Adblock Plus. Clearly, NoScript is moving from the gray area of adware into dark black area of scareware, making money at user’s expense at any cost.

It's just your typical show about an alien living among people - but it's made in Japan, so of course the opening song involves the alien getting a hard on for some ten-year-old girl.

The Adblock EasyList is the #1 Most Subscribed Adblocking Filterset for Adblock Plus in the world. There are over 4 Million steady EasyList subscribers worldwide and growing every month.

Is Google's new targeted advertising service a boon to users, or is it Big Brother in disguise?

The problem with other ad-blockers for Safari is that they are implemented as awful hacks: as an InputManager and/or ApplicationEnhancer. This compromises the stability of Safari and very often create problems when Apple releases a new version of Safari. GlimmerBlocker is implemented as an http proxy, so the stability of Safari isn't compromised because it doesn't use any hacks. It is even compatible with all other browsers. You'll always be able to upgrade Safari without breaking GlimmerBlocker (or waiting for a new release); and you'll be able to upgrade GlimmerBlocker without upgrading Safari. This makes it much easier to use the beta versions of Safari and especially the nightly builds of WebKit.

Facebook is planning to exploit the vast amount of personal information it holds on its 150m members by creating one of the world's largest market research databases. In an attempt to finally monetise the social networking site it will soon allow multinational companies to selectively target its members in order to research the appeal of new products. Companies will be able to pose questions to specially selected members based on such intimate details as whether they are single or married and even whether they are gay or straight. The company has been demonstrating the benefits of its new instant polling tool to some of the most influential business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook's global markets director and sister of founder Mark Zuckerberg, 24, said multinational companies had been bowled over by the ability to receive real-time feedback from the site's millions of users.

The Telegraph is reporting that social networking giant Facebook has new plans for generating revenue; offering its 150 million user database as a market research tool to corporations. Starting this spring, companies will be able to selectively target Facebook's members in order to research the appeal of new products through a polling system called Engagement Ads as demonstrated at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Mutify mutes your computer sound whenever Spotify plays an ad that is in Mutify's database.

Buy a Hummer, dummer?

Add the following 2 filters: facebook.com#*(social_ad) and facebook.com#*(social_ad_advert)

The ad banners that you see all over the web are stored on servers. Stopping your computer communicating with another computer can be quite simple. So, if you have a list of the servers used for ad banners, it's easy to stop ad banners even getting to your browser.

Element Hiding Helper is a companion extension for Adblock Plus meant to make creating element hiding rules easier. You simply select the element you want to be hidden and then choose which attributes of this element should be taken into account when hiding it in future. The element hiding rule is generated and added automatically. Parts of the code are based on the Aardvark extension.

Look at my exported images above, and at level-adjusted images. It's obviously not a grip, and not a built-in grip.
Edit: Level-adjusted image taken from SWF

A short, hilarious cooking mantra, featuring Sister Dimension, The "Lady" Bunny, RuPaul, David Dalrymple, Lahoma Van Zandt and Maria Ayala. "Where's the pickle? That's the surprise!".

An intense meat commercial from Soviet-era Estonia. I'm told that the words "beef" and "chicken" are what is repeated throughout.

It is a fact of nature: When a honey bee returns to the hive after finding a good source of nectar, it will perform a unique dance for its hive mates, detailing the distance, quality and quantity of the new food supply.

You’ve almost certainly seen them before, but as of a few days ago you won’t be seeing them again. Tagline advertisements (which were inserted at the end of email messages) are no more.

A major advertising campaign, which flaunted the "real beauty" of its ordinary women stars, was perhaps not as naturalistic as first thought after an expert who worked on the pictures claimed he touched them up.

the no-compromise ultraportable

Barcodes, or UPC symbols, these ubiquitous emblems of our consumer civilisation, have received a radical makeover by a Japanese firm D-Barcode - and this time their ideas ended up on grocery products all over Japan.

Give away the cell phone, sell the monthly plan; make the videogame console cheap and sell expensive games; install fancy coffeemakers in offices at no charge so you can sell managers expensive coffee sachets.

I think this commercial has been around since the 80's or earlier... Classic example of bad Texas (Houston) advertising. Cheesy yes, but will you forget that phrase anytime soon?

Anti-Piracy ad from the opening of The IT Crowd, series 2, episode 3.

Whenever you rent a movie, the multinational media industry forces you to watch their propaganda. They claim that [downloading movies is the same as snatching bags, stealing cars or shoplifting].

AIGA, the professional association for design, asked designers from across the United States to create nonpartisan posters that would encourage the American public to participate in the electoral process, and to vote for a presidential candidate.

Photos from the East London ad decapitator.

Blocks ads in Safari. It is free of charge and under the GPL license. Safari AdBlock is meant to be extremely simple to use: there is nothing to configure, no filter list to manage, no regular expression, it just works out of the box!

Tribute to Serge Gainsbourg On March 31st, a special evening dedicated to the man who brought an erotic not to French pop music.

You've Been Montgomeried!

Why do TV Adverts sound louder than the shows they interupt? The volume is the same, but they sound louder - and now the UK regulator is planning to try and even things out a bit.

Girls with “Naturally Skinny” Figures …AMAZED AT THIS ENTIRELY NEW WAY TO ADD 5 LBS. OF SOLID FLESH IN 1 WEEK…OR NO COST!

Back in 1989 we dubbed Adbusters "the journal of the mental environment," and since that day we’ve explored this terrain and tried to give it the respectability and prominence it deserves.

Yes. The cost of postage is offset with the help of relevant, targeted, unobtrusive advertisements, which will appear on the back of your Gmail Paper prints in red, bold, 36 pt Helvetica.