Adblock Plus: The Nuclear Plug-In Sep 7, 2007, 01 :30 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (6639 reads) (Other stories by Nicholas Carr)
"Adblock Plus, the Firefox browser plug-in that erases advertisements from web pages, is a killer of a killer app--or at least it could be if it ever becomes widely popular. Right now, it sits like a coyote at the edge of the net, quietly eyeing all the businesses it would happily devour.
"The plug-in, writes Noam Cohen in today's New York Times, has the potential to be an 'extreme menace to the online-advertising business model...'"