Why is blocking as a browser extension common but blocking with a proxy not? I use a proxy[] which means I get ad blocking in my mail client, RSS reader etc. Is a proxy too much work?
[] I use glimmerblocker. It's OK, the biggest "problem" is that I had to do a lot of tuning -- I think it's just one developer. And I had to write some code to get it to support HTTPS traffic (basically my proxy on my own machine had to perform a MITM "attack" on my behalf).
Because there is more friction in setting up an ad blocking proxy, secondly your usage patterns differ from the normal where a majority are almost completely browser dependent
[] I use glimmerblocker. It's OK, the biggest "problem" is that I had to do a lot of tuning -- I think it's just one developer. And I had to write some code to get it to support HTTPS traffic (basically my proxy on my own machine had to perform a MITM "attack" on my behalf).