Sardines
Well-Known Member
I have Adblock Plus as an extension. It just popped up a window and informed me that it has blocked 17,500,000 some odd ads for me.
When I was in 4th grade I had a notebook that I started writing numbers into starting with one as "1" and going in ascending order. My goal was to write numbers in the book until I got to 1,000,000. I did not get there. Eventually I found out how long it would take me to get there, and this was not just before google existed, it was before dial-up existed. So I didn't just spend 10 seconds doing an internet search. It's not impossible, but it would have taken something like 70 solid days of quick writing to do. That's 24/7 no sleep, no pooping, no eating, nothing but writing numbers at a clip of one entry per second. I can beat that until I get into triple digits, but beyond that I don't think I could keep pace. If I only worked on this 1 hour every day with no days off it would take 4.6 years.
At first my reaction to the pop-up was that I thought it was a bald faced lie. I'm not saying it isn't, but maybe I'm not thinking of all the different ways that ads appear. And the thing is, I still see ads. In fact I "green light" a lot of websites that request it and I "green light" places like this so long as it doesn't get stupid. Full disclosure, I think this site is blocked at the moment as there have been struggles to stop the ads from being overly intrusive, but I appreciate that ownership works to stop them from being overly intrusive.
Maybe 17,500,000 some odd ads have been blocked. I suspect adblock plus gives itself credit for blocking an ad and then blocking follow-up attempts to show the same ad, which I imagine makes up a huge part of that number.
I don't know, do you think that number has any possibility of being accurate? I am not sure why I care.
When I was in 4th grade I had a notebook that I started writing numbers into starting with one as "1" and going in ascending order. My goal was to write numbers in the book until I got to 1,000,000. I did not get there. Eventually I found out how long it would take me to get there, and this was not just before google existed, it was before dial-up existed. So I didn't just spend 10 seconds doing an internet search. It's not impossible, but it would have taken something like 70 solid days of quick writing to do. That's 24/7 no sleep, no pooping, no eating, nothing but writing numbers at a clip of one entry per second. I can beat that until I get into triple digits, but beyond that I don't think I could keep pace. If I only worked on this 1 hour every day with no days off it would take 4.6 years.
At first my reaction to the pop-up was that I thought it was a bald faced lie. I'm not saying it isn't, but maybe I'm not thinking of all the different ways that ads appear. And the thing is, I still see ads. In fact I "green light" a lot of websites that request it and I "green light" places like this so long as it doesn't get stupid. Full disclosure, I think this site is blocked at the moment as there have been struggles to stop the ads from being overly intrusive, but I appreciate that ownership works to stop them from being overly intrusive.
Maybe 17,500,000 some odd ads have been blocked. I suspect adblock plus gives itself credit for blocking an ad and then blocking follow-up attempts to show the same ad, which I imagine makes up a huge part of that number.
I don't know, do you think that number has any possibility of being accurate? I am not sure why I care.
