FeedBurner Quits Blogging, Gets Eaten by AdSense

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Even though I realize the potential here for FeedBurner to be taken care of, I've got to say there's something a bit unnerving about Google gobbling everything up and then feeding them into their grand advertising machine. That, and I'm pretty sick and tired of seeing ads getting shoved into every crevice of the Internet.

Seriously. Sick and tired. I respect the desire to tell people about your product or service, but you just can not hide from it anymore, it's getting ridiculous.

I think once Google's tactics become too nasty, we should all have a "Block Google" month, editing our robots.txt to block Google for one month.

The less data they have, the less they'll be able to ram ads down our throats.

install adblock, its just a whole different browsing experience.

Honestly I don't see why dial up companies don't promote the hell out of adblock, wouldn't they want their customers to want faster internet, so that they would avoid upgrading to broadband?

There are still dial-up companies? Even my grandmother who lived out in the boonies could get dsl.

Also, if you are still using dial-up installing firefox is going to be way too hard. Let alone installing an extension for it.

they must be doing well, I see NetZero commercials all the time. + I think Firefox could release something like Firefox+, with a adblockplus installed from the box

This grand advertising machine is mainly responsible for free access to quality websites. Just a thought.

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