Adblock Plus: The Nuclear Plug-In
Sep 07, 2007, 01:30 (6 Talkback[s])
(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...'"
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