Jonas Ferry’s blog

Some of the most popular Firefox extensions are ad blockers. I’ve never used one before, but instead developed surfing habits where I mostly didn’t notice ads.

Still, I wanted to try one to see if there’s any difference. I’ve chosen CustomizeGoogle, which does a whole lot of things, if you want it to. One feature is that all its features are optional.

If you’re interested in net privacy, CustomizeGoogle might be something for you. You can hide yourself from Google Analytics and from having clicks on ads count as actual clicks.

When you image search on Google, it links the results directly to the image, instead of that strange “half page” where you have to click the image once more to reach it.

Another interesting thing is that it allows you to “stream” the result page on Google searches. Instead of having results divided into pages, it adds results at the bottom as you scroll down. You have one long result page instead of many short ones. I used to guess pages’ importance by which result page they were on. I’ll have to see if I like the new way or switch back.