the latest annoyance with firefox is that they disabled all my plugins because they're unsigned.

so, i downgraded to a version that allows unsigned plugins.

they seem to be targeting the adblocker and a plugin that i'm using to remove religious sites from google searches. i just got fed up with religious sites coming back on searches for science, so i've completely blocked anything remotely religious. and, i want you to think about this.

if i can't get the thing to work, am i going to read these sites? if i do a search for something to do with evolutionary biology and "answers in genesis" appears, does that mean i'm likely to click the link? the answer is that i'm not going to be more likely to hit the link, and if i end up at a creationist site by accident, i'm not going to finish reading what i'm reading; i'm going to x it out and leave immediately. so, functionally speaking, all that preventing me from removing these sites from my results is going to do is slow me down. there is no meaningful, honest debate between religion and science anymore, there's just religious people wasting everybody's time - and i don't want to have to sort through thousands of pages of worthless nonsense in order to get to what i actually want.

likewise, would turning off adblock actually make me more likely to click the ads? of course not. i went through this with chrome for a while, and i did things like mute the sound. the more you push ads in my face, the more i'm going to find ways to tune them out. i'm just simply not interested...

these plugins are really just useful to me because they allow me to use my time more efficiently. in the end, the result will not be any different - i'm not going to watch any more ads, or read any more religious websites, i'm just going to spend more time trying to get to what i actually want.

i think the downgrade should fix the problem, but we'll see what happens.