Comments on: 5 Chrome Extensions That Really Make Being Online Better

By: Akash Kumar

Akash Kumar — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 07:14:01 +0000

Out of all those I use only AdBlock and its a nice extension to have.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:03:15 +0000

Looks like I’ll need some products. Thinking about services as a freelance social media manager, a few reports, or an ebook. Just need to research all of those options.

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:11:15 +0000

In reply to Ahmad.

… And consider supporting the sites you really use a lot 🙂

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:07:26 +0000

In reply to Lukas M.

Nice, Lukas. I use WeatherEye running in my system tray .

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:06:02 +0000

In reply to Brian.

The extension exists for both Chrome and Firefox. I don’t think the majority of people have it installed. One way of dealing with it as a site is to display a notice the way http://alternativeto.net/ does, for example.

It sucks to be a website owner and see that the price of online ads is going down, clickrate is going down, and these type of ad-removers exist. Seeing how huge cooperations like the New York Times have found it impossible to stay profitable with just ads I think many websites may need something to sell first and have ads as an additional, supporting income stream. Ads as the business model doesn’t seem to scale.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:32:44 +0000

That adblock extension is something else, just something else that keeps me from getting any ad revenue. I know the use of Chrome is increasing. I have a social media site in which 33% of visitors use Chrome. I have a photography site that has 26% of visitors using Chrome. The future doesn’t look good for website ads. I can’t believe Google allows such plugins. This will spur me onto figuring out some other way of making money.

By: Lukas M

Lukas M — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:41:53 +0000

Recently I have found great weather extension. It´s not something new but finaly it is made for normal user, so the graphics is easy.
Weather now.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imflhicibaneljgphmfahdknpmidflel?hl=cs

Also it is nice to see the the developers are active and they respond to any question od bugfixes.

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:17:32 +0000

Adblock is a lifesaver! I had to go a couple of days without it (new Windows installation on a new machine), and that just made me realize how important a plugin it really is! But there’s a ton of plugins out there which can now easily bypass Adblock or any other ad-blocking software that one might be using.

On a side-note, anyone using Adblock: make sure you donate to the developer!

By: danny

danny — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:33:39 +0000

i too recommend activeinbox

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:45:03 +0000

In reply to Julie.

ActiveInbox is really most excellent. You couldn’t pick a better extension from this list, Julie.