This Saturday, November 24th is international Buy Nothing Day. It’s a day when people are asked not to shop for a day, and instead to reflect on the consumption choices they make. To stop and think about what we buy, and why. Because making more considered choices about our consumption leaves us happier and healthier, part of stronger communities, in a more equitable world.
To assist, we've created the Buy Nothing Day Ad Blocker, an extension for the Chrome browser. Once downloaded, it will block online ads appearing on all the web pages you visit during Buy Nothing Day - from midnight Friday through to midnight Saturday. The remainder of the time, web pages will be unmodified. For just one day, try experiencing a little less advertising, and thinking a little more about what you consume and its effect on yourself and other people.
For many of us, consumption has reached excessive proportions. Australians have the highest level of personal debt in the world. We want to support people being more aware of their actions, and making better choices. We want to foster the important discussion about sustainable, ethical and personally positive consumption. For this reason we encourage you to to stop and think about your own consumption for a day, without being told to buy anything from anyone.
Extore is a team of professionals who are passionate about creating extensions for web browsers. This devotion also gives us opportunity to appreciate work of other people. We get inspired by useful, open source extensions made by developers all over the world. Our strong belief is that one should share helpful add-ons with others. That’s why we’d like to present you our ever-growing list of favourite extensions that have inspired us. Moreover, as you probably have already learned, sometimes struggling for the best brings an end to the good. Talking about add-ons it often turns out that an upgrade is worse then previous version. Also it can become really tricky to get back to the beloved version of your favourite extension. That’s why we’re going to make not only the latest, but all versions of our favourite (and we hope yours too) add-ons available for download. No more compromises, just stick to the version you really like!