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Google discovers Chrome can (really) block ads 
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But how do they know I'm blocking the ads I'm never gonna click on? Cookies (that I wouldn't want on my system anyway) or something? :?
And couldn't they just make the page unreadable until the blocker was switched off? (though they'd be asking for trouble, frankly)

Some website will display " :-[ "

Ok, I found it http://channel.hexus.net/

Yes it works with my browser. It was also a flash ad so was blocked by Click to Flash as well. Though why should we put up with Flash ads?

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koli wrote:
koli wrote:
pcernie wrote:
But how do they know I'm blocking the ads I'm never gonna click on? Cookies (that I wouldn't want on my system anyway) or something? :?
And couldn't they just make the page unreadable until the blocker was switched off? (though they'd be asking for trouble, frankly)

Some website will display " :-[ "

Ok, I found it http://channel.hexus.net/


I can even get rid of that with RIP in FF if I want :lol: :oops:

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