>I'd be really happy to get 2% useful content out of some "tech" sites I've visited. "Independent" review sites are usually the worst, they're not making any money selling software or services so they have to find some way to keep the lights on.
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>I haven't tried AdBlock, but I've been using NoScript for a couple of weeks. Highly recommended if you're not already using it.

AdBlock is abandonware, but AdBlockPlus took where it left off. Sometimes I load a page in an IE tab just to see what the masses see, and usually can't take more than one such view a month :).

NoScript is maybe annoying at times, when buying stuff at places which I didn't visit before and then a button doesn't work, but that's today's world, one just has to keep lists of places to trust and places not to. As Steven Black once said, "googleanalytics doesn't know I exist".