Add-Art is a free Firefox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. Created with the support of Eyebeam, Rhizome, Add-Art releases new art shows every two weeks and strives to feature contemporary artists and curators.
The plugin works alongside AdBlock Plus, which blocks online ads, and simply replaces that blank space with art images. AdBlock Plus is the most popular of the thousands of available add-ons for Firefox with 18 million total downloads (as of May 2008) and over 250,000 downloads last week.
Would you like to see art instead of ads as you browse sites online? Go to add-art.org and download the plugin for your Firefox browser now.
To discuss it further post in the add-art forums.
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I really like the idea but I doubt I would actually use it. Call me uncultured. Still one more reason to use firefox. One less reason for PPC.
Look, I definitely am going to download and try this plug-in, but if it successful and many people use it, that just means one of several things will occur:
Advertising will come in during the TEXT of what we are reading, or some other more conspicuous and unpleasant location.
We will have to pay to subscribe to various sites whose advertisers no longer wish to pay to have no one look at their odds.
[Insert other evils here.]
Is this really what you want?
We are pioneering this!
@Admiral
This has already happened. Check out http://www.adfreeblog.org/ for more. If it gets worse in the future, we can fight that battle next.
This also, has already happened. It’s called porn.
Alright, more seriously now:
1. This add-on could bring about all kinds of things, positive and negative. And it might not. We’re speculating. We could talk about all kinds of things that might happen, but we don’t know. The add-on has been out for a week.
You have rights. You can look at what you want. Marketers don’t own your brain and your eyes, even if they think they paid for it. You can tape tv shows and fast-forward through the commercials – and there’s court cases to back you up). You can flip past the ads in a magazine. You can choose not to see advertising (as long as you’re not in public space) and that’s good.
History has shown that advertising will creep ever further into our lives. Blaming those who fight back is overlooking those truly responsible. When you get down to it, your argument is not with me.
This is awesome! Go Eyebeam, Go!
I think this pro-advertising man is going to have to take some more persuasive viewpoints on a site called anti-advertising agency.