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27 Jun 2009 17:13

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Biz, Tech: What are Google and Facebook fighting for? Lots of ad money

  • $50 billion amount of ad money floating around the Internet each year; much of it goes to Google
  • $500 billion amount of ad money still floating around offline; in other words, there’s tons of room to grow source
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13 Mar 2009 11:31

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Biz, Tech: Adbusters wants to “unclick Google” in a new protest

  • They created a subversive Greasemonkey script. Adbusters, who, as you might guess by the name, like to bust the chops of advertisers, dislikes the company’s new customized ad services and to protest, they’ve created a new script that clicks on every single ad on a page. Their end goal? To create a script that clicks on the ads AND removes them from every page they’re on. Ah, to be stupid kids with counterculture ethos. source
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