Foof Your Web Pages
June 12th, 2008 (2:00pm) Mike Gunderloy 1 CommentTweet This
If your idea of web working includes seeing the web your way (instead of the way that advertisers want you to see it), you might want to download Foof. This Firefox extension, a derivative of the popular Adblock Plus, doesn’t just get rid of ads. Instead, it tries to preserve the page layout by tossing other things in the place of ads: YouTube videos, blog posts, wikipedia articles, news, and more. Foof uses the TextWise semantic engine to decide what to show, with the result that there’s usually at least some relevance between the Foof content and the rest of the page.
Foof works as well as Adblock Plus for getting rid of ads, and the bulk of its selections during my browsing did match their host pages. You can select which types of content you want Foof to display, though there are no per-page or other detailed settings.
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If everyone would use such blockers, the web would become a paid member system.
Ads keep content free.
Question: What do your advitisers think about you teaching people how to block their ads? Would love to read about the “other” side :-)