gggirlgeek wrote:I cannot tell you how much I appreciate Noscipt, and the feeling of control it gives me. THANK YOU, team! I will specifically click your ads to help out.
Thank you for the kind words. They're very much appreciated.
Thank you also for your desire to support NoScript (which, as
therube says, has for a long time had capability to defeat the redirect described there). We have had some users object to the ads. I've pointed out that a small donation from each user, of any amount at all, would no doubt be sufficient to eliminate the ads --
for a valuable freeware product, not just a web site or blog. I notice that the article and some commenters said the same thing: Politely ask users to contribute whatever they can, large or small.
The ad business has only itself to blame, as noted in that article: The pop-ups, dancing frogs, scams, malware, blinking/animation/Flash video, etc.
Note that NoScript's ABE feature lets you choose to allow various ad scripts at the sites you wish to support, while blocking them elsewhere, automatically. As some commenters said, if a site *earns* my support with valued content *and unobtrusive, non-offensive ads*, I can whitelist that. Do please point that out there, should you wish to make a comment.
Here is an example:
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Site .google-syndication.com
Accept from .favesite1.com .favesite2.com .favesite3.com
Deny
This lets google's ad script run at the listed sites, who have *earned* my support, and nowhere else.
If I find google's ads offensive, I could substitute any of the ad agencies listed in this sticky:
SOME SITES YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO ALLOW.
Thanks again for pointing us to that thread!
