{"id":164,"date":"2004-02-14T21:20:04","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T21:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2004\/02\/rip_read_in_pea\/"},"modified":"2004-02-14T21:20:04","modified_gmt":"2004-02-14T21:20:04","slug":"rip_read_in_pea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2004\/02\/rip_read_in_pea\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. = Read In Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do most of my reading (<a href=\"http:\/\/mac.fiveforks.com\/ra\/blog\/archives\/000571.asp\">like Greg<\/a>) on the internet. When Yahoo News started animating their ads so that some of them crawled right across the columns of text, I went looking for a way to block it.<\/p>\n<p>On the Windows side, I&#8217;ve used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popupcop.com\/\">PopUpCop<\/a> for years. It blocks Pop Up ads, animated banners, and all kinds of tricky script things that run in the background trying to track you, advertise to you, etc. I don&#8217;t mind passive banner ads (as print ads are) but all of the animation and tracking is too much.<\/p>\n<p>On Apple&#8217;s Safari browser (Internet Explorer did not even ship with our new Mac) I found a blog on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hicksdesign.co.uk\/journal\/archives\/000310.php\">Hicks Design<\/a> pointing to <a href=\"http:\/\/hiredgoons.com\/software\/PithHelmet\/PithHelmet.php\">Pith Helmet<\/a>, which immediately put annoying ads to rest.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s pop-up blocker does not stop animated ads. I doubt Internet Explorer&#8217;s new pop-up blocker will either, so I&#8217;ll keep using PopUpCop and Pith Helmet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do most of my reading (like Greg) on the internet. When Yahoo News started animating their ads so that some of them crawled right across the columns of text, I went looking for a way to block it. On &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2004\/02\/rip_read_in_pea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}