Blocking Advertising Hurting Good Sites

The website Smashing Magazine published a take on whether or not ad blocking software hurts good websites and by extension those who make their living working with good websites. This time the article comes from the point of view of web designers. My conclusions remain the same. I will turn off my AdBlock Plus, actually … Read more

NoScript Firefox Plugin – Whitelist, Blacklist, Graylist

I use the NoScript plug-in for Firefox.  However, there are tons of websites that use JavaScript for legitimate functionality.  For example, the Mozilla forums use a javascript:history.back() for the back button in the forums.  There is obviously no need to block this. Originally, I tried to allow everyone to use JavaScript and then block the … Read more