from small one page howto to huge articles all in one place

search text in:




Other .linuxhowtos.org sites: www.linuxhowtos.org
toolsntoys.linuxhowtos.org



Last additions:
How to make X listen on port 6000

How to make X listen on port 6000

words:

34

views:

82724

userrating:

average rating: 1.2 (52 votes) (1=very good 6=terrible)


May, 25th 2007:
April, 26th 2007:
Apr, 10th. 2007:
Druckversion . pdf icon
You are here: Home->News archive


May, 25th 2007
This is a short essay about why the use of adblockers is bad for the viewer (user of the adblocker).

A huge amount (not exact numbers are known to me) of those sites are made by individials or a group of individuals in their spare time.
They spend great amounts of time for the content which they offer to be read by you for free.
Most of them have one thing in common: they get no money for writing and you pay no money for reading.
Some content creators publish just for the fun of it, some to become famous, some to help a.s.o.

"So what?" or "What does it have to do with me and my adblocker?" you might think.
The sites cost money for hosting, domain name and service. Usually not much, but a few $ per month can sum up.
For a lot of sites, advertising is the only income for those sites.
By using an adblocker, you take away their only income.
If you own a shop and every visitor goes to the magazine rack and reads the news for free and nobody buys anything, how long would YOU keep the rack?
Do you get the point?

If the sites get no income to keep up the costs of the sites, they will disapear or get no maintainance any more and will die slowly.
So you have no new stuff to read, interesting things to learn except those sites made by a few big publishers.
Would the internet still be that interesting?

By the way, reading this did cost ME money, did the ad on the site show up? no?
Would it be such a pain to have an ad on the site, no not one of those nasty layer ads or pop ups, just a normal text or image block without flicker, audio or flash crap?
Sure, you are always free to donate some money, but lets face it, nobody wants to do that.
Almost everybody wants to have stuff for free, no payments or concessions.
Disabling the adblocker would be a small step to keep the internet and its millions of small and interesting pages alive. It would be a tiny sacrifice but would make a difference.

Just out of curiosity and the technical possibilites, I checked and found out, that 40% of my visitor use an adblocker.
You never know, maybe there was something really interesting you might have missed.
So please give it a try and disable the adblocker for your own interest. Keep the popup blocker active if it annoys you, but please give the site owner a chance to get a little money back.

Sometimes just displaying the ads is helping, not all banners get paid per click, some of them get paid by view.

If you like a site (like this, hint hint) make an exception rule for the adblocker to allow it to show its banners, please.
back



Support us on Content Nation

New Packages

- as rdf newsfeed
- as rss newsfeed
- as Atom newsfeed
2026-01-06
ada_language_server - 26.0.202504171
Ebuild name:

dev-ada/ada_language_server-26.0.202504171

Description

a Language Server Protocol for Ada/SPARK

Added to portage

2026-01-06

ada_language_server - 26.0.202507020
Ebuild name:

dev-ada/ada_language_server-26.0.202507020

Description

a Language Server Protocol for Ada/SPARK

Added to portage

2026-01-06

ada_language_server - 26.0.202507021
Ebuild name:

dev-ada/ada_language_server-26.0.202507021

Description

a Language Server Protocol for Ada/SPARK

Added to portage

2026-01-06

cfn-lint - 1.43.2
Ebuild name:

dev-python/cfn-lint-1.43.2

Description

CloudFormation Linter

Added to portage

2026-01-06

dbeaver-bin - 25.3.2
Ebuild name:

dev-db/dbeaver-bin-25.3.2

Description

Free universal database tool (community edition)

Added to portage

2026-01-06

django-polymorphic - 4.6.0
Ebuild name:

dev-python/django-polymorphic-4.6.0

Description

Seamless Polymorphic Inheritance for Django Models

Added to portage

2026-01-06

ed - 1.22.4
Ebuild name:

sys-apps/ed-1.22.4

Description

Your basic line editor

Added to portage

2026-01-06

hypothesis - 6.149.0
Ebuild name:

dev-python/hypothesis-6.149.0

Description

A library for property based testing

Added to portage

2026-01-06

imlib2 - 1.12.6
Ebuild name:

media-libs/imlib2-1.12.6

Description

Version 2 of an advanced replacement library for libraries like libXpm

Added to portage

2026-01-06

imlib2_loaders - 1.12.6
Ebuild name:

media-plugins/imlib2_loaders-1.12.6

Description

Additional image loaders for Imlib2

Added to portage

2026-01-06

patatt - 0.7.0-r1
Ebuild name:

dev-python/patatt-0.7.0-r1

Description

A simple library to add cryptographic attestation to patches sent via em

Added to portage

2026-01-06

ruff - 0.14.10-r1
Ebuild name:

dev-util/ruff-0.14.10-r1

Description

An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust

Added to portage

2026-01-06

seatd - 0.9.2
Ebuild name:

sys-auth/seatd-0.9.2

Description

Minimal seat management daemon and universal library

Added to portage

2026-01-06

sudo-rs - 0.2.11-r1
Ebuild name:

app-admin/sudo-rs-0.2.11-r1

Description

A memory safe implementation of sudo and su.

Added to portage

2026-01-06

2026-01-05
ada_language_server - 26.0.202411173
Ebuild name:

dev-ada/ada_language_server-26.0.202411173

Description

a Language Server Protocol for Ada/SPARK

Added to portage

2026-01-05

ada_language_server - 26.0.202412191
Ebuild name:

dev-ada/ada_language_server-26.0.202412191

Description

a Language Server Protocol for Ada/SPARK

Added to portage

2026-01-05

ada_language_server - 26.0.202502240
Ebuild name:

dev-ada/ada_language_server-26.0.202502240

Description

a Language Server Protocol for Ada/SPARK

Added to portage

2026-01-05

ada_language_server - 26.0.202504012
Ebuild name:

dev-ada/ada_language_server-26.0.202504012

Description

a Language Server Protocol for Ada/SPARK

Added to portage

2026-01-05

autoconf - 2.72-r6
Ebuild name:

dev-build/autoconf-2.72-r6

Description

Used to create autoconfiguration files

Added to portage

2026-01-05

baselayout - 2.18-r1
Ebuild name:

sys-apps/baselayout-2.18-r1

Description

Filesystem baselayout and init scripts

Added to portage

2026-01-05

csharp-language-server - 0.21.0
Ebuild name:

dev-dotnet/csharp-language-server-0.21.0

Description

Roslyn-based LSP language server for C

Added to portage

2026-01-05

cups - 2.4.14-r1
Ebuild name:

net-print/cups-2.4.14-r1

Description

The Common Unix Printing System

Added to portage

2026-01-05

dotnet-sdk-bin - 9.0.112
Ebuild name:

dev-dotnet/dotnet-sdk-bin-9.0.112

Description

.NET is a free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform

Added to portage

2026-01-05

dotnet-sdk-bin - 9.0.308
Ebuild name:

dev-dotnet/dotnet-sdk-bin-9.0.308

Description

.NET is a free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform

Added to portage

2026-01-05

ebuild-mode - 1.80-r1
Ebuild name:

app-xemacs/ebuild-mode-1.80-r1

Description

Emacs modes for editing ebuilds and other Gentoo specific files

Added to portage

2026-01-05

eza - 0.23.4
Ebuild name:

sys-apps/eza-0.23.4

Description

A modern, maintained replacement for ls

Added to portage

2026-01-05

flog - 4.9.2
Ebuild name:

dev-ruby/flog-4.9.2

Description

Flog reports the most tortured code in an easy to read pain report

Added to portage

2026-01-05

gcc - 16.0.0_p20260104
Ebuild name:

sys-devel/gcc-16.0.0_p20260104

Description

The GNU Compiler Collection

Added to portage

2026-01-05

git-delete-merged-branches - 7.5.1
Ebuild name:

dev-vcs/git-delete-merged-branches-7.5.1

Description

Command-line tool to delete merged Git branches

Added to portage

2026-01-05

git-sources - 6.19_rc4
Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/git-sources-6.19_rc4

Description

The very latest -git version of the Linux kernel

Added to portage

2026-01-05

gmime - 3.2.15-r2
Ebuild name:

dev-libs/gmime-3.2.15-r2

Description

Library for creating and parsing MIME messages

Added to portage

2026-01-05

gpredict - 2.4
Ebuild name:

media-radio/gpredict-2.4

Description

Real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application

Added to portage

2026-01-05

gtkada - 26.0.0
Ebuild name:

dev-ada/gtkada-26.0.0

Description

A complete Ada graphical toolkit

Added to portage

2026-01-05

guvcview - 2.2.2
Ebuild name:

media-video/guvcview-2.2.2

Description

Simple Qt6 or GTK+3 interface for capturing and viewing video from v4l2

Added to portage

2026-01-05

haproxy - 2.8.18
Ebuild name:

net-proxy/haproxy-2.8.18

Description

A TCP/HTTP reverse proxy for high availability environments

Added to portage

2026-01-05

haproxy - 3.0.14
Ebuild name:

net-proxy/haproxy-3.0.14

Description

A TCP/HTTP reverse proxy for high availability environments

Added to portage

2026-01-05

headscale - 0.27.1
Ebuild name:

net-vpn/headscale-0.27.1

Description

An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

Added to portage

2026-01-05

hypothesis - 6.148.12
Ebuild name:

dev-python/hypothesis-6.148.12

Description

A library for property based testing

Added to portage

2026-01-05

ldns - 1.9.0
Ebuild name:

net-libs/ldns-1.9.0

Description

Library that aims to simplify DNS programming in C

Added to portage

2026-01-05

liburing - 2.13
Ebuild name:

sys-libs/liburing-2.13

Description

Efficient I/O with io_uring

Added to portage

2026-01-05

marshmallow - 4.2.0
Ebuild name:

dev-python/marshmallow-4.2.0

Description

A library for converting to and from native Python datatypes

Added to portage

2026-01-05

mesa - 25.3.3
Ebuild name:

media-libs/mesa-25.3.3

Description

OpenGL-like graphic library for Linux

Added to portage

2026-01-05

mesa_clc - 25.3.3
Ebuild name:

dev-util/mesa_clc-25.3.3

Description

mesa_clc tool used for building OpenCL C to SPIR-V

Added to portage

2026-01-05

neomutt - 20260105
Ebuild name:

mail-client/neomutt-20260105

Description

A small but very powerful text-based mail client

Added to portage

2026-01-05

netcdf4 - 1.7.4
Ebuild name:

dev-python/netcdf4-1.7.4

Description

Python/numpy interface to the netCDF C library

Added to portage

2026-01-05

nsd - 4.14.0
Ebuild name:

net-dns/nsd-4.14.0

Description

An authoritative only, high performance, open source name server

Added to portage

2026-01-05

outline-magic - 0.9
Ebuild name:

app-emacs/outline-magic-0.9

Description

Outline mode extensions for Emacs

Added to portage

2026-01-05

pcsx2 - 2.6.0
Ebuild name:

games-emulation/pcsx2-2.6.0

Description

PlayStation 2 emulator

Added to portage

2026-01-05

pcsx2_patches - 0_p20251228
Ebuild name:

games-emulation/pcsx2_patches-0_p20251228

Description

Collection of game patches for use with PCSX2 (e.g. wides

Added to portage

2026-01-05

pgbadger - 13.2
Ebuild name:

dev-db/pgbadger-13.2

Description

pgBadger is a PostgreSQL log analyzer

Added to portage

2026-01-05

pkixssh - 17.2.2
Ebuild name:

net-misc/pkixssh-17.2.2

Description

OpenSSH fork with X.509 v3 certificate support

Added to portage

2026-01-05

prettier-ada - 26.0.0
Ebuild name:

dev-ada/prettier-ada-26.0.0

Description

Port of the Prettier formatter to the Ada programming language

Added to portage

2026-01-05

public_suffix - 7.0.2
Ebuild name:

dev-ruby/public_suffix-7.0.2

Description

Parse and decompose a domain name into top level domain, domain and su

Added to portage

2026-01-05

python-pkcs11 - 0.9.3
Ebuild name:

dev-python/python-pkcs11-0.9.3

Description

PKCS11/Cryptoki support for Python

Added to portage

2026-01-05

python-stdnum - 2.2
Ebuild name:

dev-python/python-stdnum-2.2

Description

A module to handle standardized numbers and codes

Added to portage

2026-01-05

rlwrap - 0.48
Ebuild name:

app-misc/rlwrap-0.48

Description

GNU readline wrapper

Added to portage

2026-01-05

scx - 1.0.19
Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/scx-1.0.19

Description

sched_ext schedulers and tools

Added to portage

2026-01-05

scx-loader - 1.0.19
Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/scx-loader-1.0.19

Description

DBUS on-demand loader of sched-ext schedulers

Added to portage

2026-01-05

spawn - 26.0.0
Ebuild name:

dev-ada/spawn-26.0.0

Description

Simple API to spawn processes

Added to portage

2026-01-05

syd - 3.48.1
Ebuild name:

sys-apps/syd-3.48.1

Description

seccomp and landlock based application sandbox with support for namespaces

Added to portage

2026-01-05

templates-parser - 26.0.0
Ebuild name:

dev-ada/templates-parser-26.0.0

Description

A template engine

Added to portage

2026-01-05

tomlrb - 2.0.4
Ebuild name:

dev-ruby/tomlrb-2.0.4

Description

A racc based toml parser

Added to portage

2026-01-05

tty-format - 12
Ebuild name:

app-xemacs/tty-format-12

Description

Text file backspacing and ANSI SGR as faces

Added to portage

2026-01-05

vcrpy - 8.1.1
Ebuild name:

dev-python/vcrpy-8.1.1

Description

Automatically mock your HTTP interactions to simplify and speed up testing

Added to portage

2026-01-05

zen-sources - 6.18.3
Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/zen-sources-6.18.3

Description

The Zen Kernel Live Sources

Added to portage

2026-01-05

rdf newsfeed | rss newsfeed | Atom newsfeed
Copyright 2004-2025 Sascha Nitsch Unternehmensberatung GmbH
- Copyright and legal notices -
Time to create this page: 61.6 ms