Geeky Baldisms

Webmasters like myself have to pay the bills. With that in mind, if you would like to allow Adsense ads through Adblock Plus, here's a graphic showing the exceptions that need to be allowed. These exceptions allow ONLY Adsense ads, nothing else, as far as I can tell.

You can do a search for google and adsense in the Adblock Preferences dialog to get most of them, a manual search for /ads*.php$subdocument and http://pagead2.$~other,~object-subrequest will get the last two.

So why would you want to do such a thing? Well, I began using Adsense on my sites three years ago because it was polite. And it hasn't gotten any less polite with the years. I decided long ago that annoying surfers with intrusive advertising was bad business, so I have always refrained from doing so.

Adsense ads load quickly and inobtrusively, IMHO. I have NEVER had an annoying experience with them. So I personally see no need to block them, a la Adblock Plus.

I let them through as a courtesy to other webmasters who use them.

If you would like to do the same thing, here's your tutorial on how to do so.

NOTE: if you trust the website to behave itself, advertising-wise, you can hit the ABP button on Firefox (upper right corner) and select "Disable on www.domain.com"

Feel free to do so on my sites. I GUARANTEE you that any advertising I have is polite. If you see popups, then you have spyware problems.