Ad Blockers
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Ad Blockers
I currently use AdblockerPlus.
Do some use Adblock Edge?
Do people have a preference?
See
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c84a647e-d3af ... z3VtZ1pjyJ
Do some use Adblock Edge?
Do people have a preference?
See
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c84a647e-d3af ... z3VtZ1pjyJ
Re: Ad Blockers
I used ublock, which is supposed to have a lower memory footprint
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Re: Ad Blockers
Never heard of it but it looks very good.......
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... iagm?hl=en
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... iagm?hl=en
Re: Ad Blockers
AdBlock Plus is all I use for as long as it has been available
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Re: Ad Blockers
In Chrome, I use AdBlock, AdBlock Plus, and FlashBlock.
Re: Ad Blockers
Adblock Plus used to be good but they have sold out recently, allowing ad networks to pay them to be ''whitelisted'' and get ads through. (They claim they do this very rarely but in reality hundreds of networks and sites are whitelisted, and even if they scaled it back, why use an adblocker that doesn't block ads when there are free and better alternatives available?).
I switched over to uBlock and it's excellent.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... phjbkeiagm
I switched over to uBlock and it's excellent.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... phjbkeiagm
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Re: Ad Blockers
OK, so I added uBlock to my Chrome, but am I correct in assuming that it is not available for Firefox?
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Re: Ad Blockers
For which many thanks; I installed it.
egads...you guys are fast! and helpful!
egads...you guys are fast! and helpful!
- Steelersfan
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Re: Ad Blockers
I've used Adblock Plus for several years, like it a lot and intend to stick with it.
Reading other message boards, Ublock's primary advantage is when it's used on memory constrained PC's (less than 2 MB of memory).
I've got lots more than that so will stay with what works for me.
Reading other message boards, Ublock's primary advantage is when it's used on memory constrained PC's (less than 2 MB of memory).
I've got lots more than that so will stay with what works for me.
Re: Ad Blockers
Ad Blocker Plus and Disconnect.
Re: Ad Blockers
Hey steelersfan just curious, have you noticed more and more ads getting through adblock plus? I caught those tricky news story looking ads getting through (apparently because they pay them off) and that's what finally got me to switch away.Steelersfan wrote:I've used Adblock Plus for several years, like it a lot and intend to stick with it.
Reading other message boards, Ublock's primary advantage is when it's used on memory constrained PC's (less than 2 MB of memory).
I've got lots more than that so will stay with what works for me.
If you prefer the Adblock Plus architecture you can switch to Adblock Edge, which uses the same code but doesn't let any ads through.
Disconnect is also great, it blocks a lot of data collection sites but might disable normal site functionality once or twice in a blue moon.
Re: Ad Blockers
I also use Ghostery to avoid having that one thing I looked at on Amazon follow me around forever. Similar to Disconnect.
Re: Ad Blockers
Yes, but exposure to whitelisted advertisement is optional, though enable by default. You can turn it off in settings.mac808 wrote:Adblock Plus used to be good but they have sold out recently, allowing ad networks to pay them to be ''whitelisted'' and get ads through. (They claim they do this very rarely but in reality hundreds of networks and sites are whitelisted, and even if they scaled it back, why use an adblocker that doesn't block ads when there are free and better alternatives available?).
I switched over to uBlock and it's excellent.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... phjbkeiagm
Re: Ad Blockers
I use No Script for Firefox, and use that as my primary browser. It allows you to allow certain domains, either permanently or temporarily, but many, many shopping websites have so much crap running behind the scenes that the sites become crippled.
Therefore, I also use Chrome, but only for short periods of time, and only in incognito mode, when I want to buy something online from a site that doesn't work w/ No Script.
Therefore, I also use Chrome, but only for short periods of time, and only in incognito mode, when I want to buy something online from a site that doesn't work w/ No Script.
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Re: Ad Blockers
I haven't noticed, but ads are white noise to me so they just don't register.mac808 wrote:Hey steelersfan just curious, have you noticed more and more ads getting through adblock plus? I caught those tricky news story looking ads getting through (apparently because they pay them off) and that's what finally got me to switch away.Steelersfan wrote:I've used Adblock Plus for several years, like it a lot and intend to stick with it.
Reading other message boards, Ublock's primary advantage is when it's used on memory constrained PC's (less than 2 MB of memory).
I've got lots more than that so will stay with what works for me.
I just followed serbeer's advice just above this post and blocked their white lists. I bet that will turn off a bunch of ads I don't even notice. It was really easy. I just clicked on the ABP red hexagon in the browser top line and made one more click.
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Re: Ad Blockers
I use Ad Block Plus and Element Hiding Helper. The first catches nearly everything, the second lets me manually block anything that got missed and is annoying enough to bother with.
Re: Ad Blockers
I use AdBlock and Ghostery, no issues with ads, something things don't load right unless I turn off part or all of Ghostery, such as Home Depot product info.
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Re: Ad Blockers
Beware. I accidentally installed AdBlock Pro. It contained extension malware, causing tabs with all kinds of ads to open on your browser. Took me awhile to figure it out because it looks like AdBlock/Adblock Plus.
Re: Ad Blockers
For both Firefox and Chrome there is uBlock. But for Chrome alone there is µMatrix.
µMatrix is like NoScript, but without the headaches. Just be careful when using uBlock and µMatrix together in Chrome you don't repeat the blocking lists. I use the blocking lists in µMatrix and turn any off in uBlock that are repeaters.
µMatrix for Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... jdcf?hl=en
Wilders thread discussing µMatrix.
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/ ... or.369601/
BobK
µMatrix is like NoScript, but without the headaches. Just be careful when using uBlock and µMatrix together in Chrome you don't repeat the blocking lists. I use the blocking lists in µMatrix and turn any off in uBlock that are repeaters.
µMatrix for Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... jdcf?hl=en
Wilders thread discussing µMatrix.
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/ ... or.369601/
BobK
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Re: Ad Blockers
Can you please substantiate this claim? I don't see anything there that indicates they accept payment in exchange for being whitelisted:mac808 wrote:Adblock Plus used to be good but they have sold out recently, allowing ad networks to pay them to be ''whitelisted'' and get ads through. (They claim they do this very rarely but in reality hundreds of networks and sites are whitelisted, and even if they scaled it back, why use an adblocker that doesn't block ads when there are free and better alternatives available?).
https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads
Avi
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Re: Ad Blockers
AviN wrote:mac808 wrote:Adblock Plus used to be good but they have sold out recently, allowing ad networks to pay them to be ''whitelisted'' and get ads through. (They claim they do this very rarely but in reality hundreds of networks and sites are whitelisted, and even if they scaled it back, why use an adblocker that doesn't block ads when there are free and better alternatives available?).
Can you please substantiate this claim? I don't see anything there that indicates they accept payment in exchange for being whitelisted:
https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads
Avi
Ten percent of those whitelisted pay to play. See this.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02 ... y-to-play/
I'm shocked, shocked, that at the Adblockplus website they fail to emphasize that large whitelisted companies pay-to-play.
BobK
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Re: Ad Blockers
Thanks to Bob for beating me to the punch and posting a link. There was a mini firestorm in the tech press about a month ago, the company behind ABP is being publicly sued in Germany by publishers who equate their pay to play whitelist scheme to extortion. It seems pretty certain the publishers will lose but nonetheless makes for good reading if you're interested in the market and have some time to kill. I'm a security researcher and we love adblock because a huge amount of adware is now spread through ad networks. Unfortunately, Adblock Plus tends to whitelist the worst offending networks, lulling users into a false sense of security (e.g. ''oh this can't be an ad, I have adblock on!''). As another poster mentioned there are also a few imposters like Adblock Pro, who confuse users into downloading them and then show them even more ads. It's a jungle out there.AviN wrote:mac808 wrote:Adblock Plus used to be good but they have sold out recently, allowing ad networks to pay them to be ''whitelisted'' and get ads through. (They claim they do this very rarely but in reality hundreds of networks and sites are whitelisted, and even if they scaled it back, why use an adblocker that doesn't block ads when there are free and better alternatives available?).
Can you please substantiate this claim? I don't see anything there that indicates they accept payment in exchange for being whitelisted:
https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads
Avi
Re: Ad Blockers
Thanks for that information. That's a little disappointingbobcat2 wrote:
Ten percent of those whitelisted pay to play. See this.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02 ... y-to-play/
I'm shocked, shocked, that at the Adblockplus website they fail to emphasize that large whitelisted companies pay-to-play.
BobK
Avi
Re: Ad Blockers
AdBlock on chrome
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Re: Ad Blockers
Anybody have issues with Adblock? Maybe within the last 2-3 months I've had numerous sites fail to load due to adblock on Chrome. Not sure if it's just me, but the problem just started recently.
Re: Ad Blockers
I have not had that problem. Can you give an example we can try to load?
Re: Ad Blockers
I switched from Adblock Plus to Adblock to ublock.
I have 16 GB of RAM in my system but the lower memory footprint of ublock works wonders when having many tabs open.
Ublock has a great UI allowing you to flag additional things to block as well as allowing you (I.e. Not them) to white list a site.
There isn't a single reason to stay with the older Adblock technologies that I can think of. Ublock appears superior to me in every way.
I have 16 GB of RAM in my system but the lower memory footprint of ublock works wonders when having many tabs open.
Ublock has a great UI allowing you to flag additional things to block as well as allowing you (I.e. Not them) to white list a site.
There isn't a single reason to stay with the older Adblock technologies that I can think of. Ublock appears superior to me in every way.
Re: Ad Blockers
Another vote for uBlock on Chrome here.
I moved away from ABP after the "whitelist" nonsense. I, as a software dev, don't have an issue with people making money off software, but writing software that removes the potential revenue stream from a website and then allowing certain ads based on the diversion of that payment to you is hypocritical and scummy. uBlock also seems faster and uses less resources than ABP did.
I do use ABP on Firefox for Android on my tablet, because it is the only real option for blocking ads on mobile devices without rooting.
I moved away from ABP after the "whitelist" nonsense. I, as a software dev, don't have an issue with people making money off software, but writing software that removes the potential revenue stream from a website and then allowing certain ads based on the diversion of that payment to you is hypocritical and scummy. uBlock also seems faster and uses less resources than ABP did.
I do use ABP on Firefox for Android on my tablet, because it is the only real option for blocking ads on mobile devices without rooting.
Re: Ad Blockers
Adblock, as opposed to Adblock Plus, on Chrome. No issues! Sweet!
Re: Ad Blockers
I've been using AdBlock (just plain AdBlock, nothing else in the name) on PC for Chrome. The running total it keeps is quite interesting: 655,488 ads blocked so far. I never knew I was getting that many!
On my smartphone I use Adblock Edge (based on Adblock Plus but no whitelist) for FIrefox.
On my smartphone I use Adblock Edge (based on Adblock Plus but no whitelist) for FIrefox.
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Re: Ad Blockers
I run lots of ads on my site and find it interesting to see which ones get blocked by adblocker and which don't. I had an advertiser change their ad and then complain that they couldn't see it (due to their adblocker software.)
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Re: Ad Blockers
I do not use any blockers and since I switched to Apple and Safari for our browser it is no where near as bad as windows and Internet Explorer. In fact, I am not sure one could use a blocker with Apple even if they wanted. Their current operating system is Yosemite.
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Re: Ad Blockers
I use Ad Block Plus with Firefox on Mac when I'm at work. I have no idea if there is one for Safari though.abuss368 wrote:I do not use any blockers and since I switched to Apple and Safari for our browser it is no where near as bad as windows and Internet Explorer. In fact, I am not sure one could use a blocker with Apple even if they wanted. Their current operating system is Yosemite.
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Interesting. Thank you for sharing.Clearly_Irrational wrote:I use Ad Block Plus with Firefox on Mac when I'm at work. I have no idea if there is one for Safari though.abuss368 wrote:I do not use any blockers and since I switched to Apple and Safari for our browser it is no where near as bad as windows and Internet Explorer. In fact, I am not sure one could use a blocker with Apple even if they wanted. Their current operating system is Yosemite.
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I switched to ublock after reading this thread, and I've been happy with it. However, it appears as if they have just changed some settings that now allow it to alter privacy settings. So google has flagged it.
However, reading the developers explanation, it sounds like these features have been there all along.
Have any other users here figured out what the deal is? I've had it disabled all day, but am considering allowing it to run again.
However, reading the developers explanation, it sounds like these features have been there all along.
Have any other users here figured out what the deal is? I've had it disabled all day, but am considering allowing it to run again.
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If the developers are to be believed, all they're doing is turning off prefetching. I don't have a problem with that: prefetching strikes me as a dubious feature anyway, and I don't know why Google stuck it under privacy settings.bhsince87 wrote:I switched to ublock after reading this thread, and I've been happy with it. However, it appears as if they have just changed some settings that now allow it to alter privacy settings. So google has flagged it.
However, reading the developers explanation, it sounds like these features have been there all along.
Have any other users here figured out what the deal is? I've had it disabled all day, but am considering allowing it to run again.
For what it's worth, I'm using ublock but with Firefox where I haven't seen any problems. I've mostly given up on Chrome, the "aw snap" thing stops being funny after you see it too many times.
Re: Ad Blockers
Thanks, telemark.
After going a day without it, I can at least vouch that it really works!
I just turned it back on.
After going a day without it, I can at least vouch that it really works!
I just turned it back on.
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Adblock is available for safari. You can find it on the safari extensions page.Clearly_Irrational wrote:I use Ad Block Plus with Firefox on Mac when I'm at work. I have no idea if there is one for Safari though.abuss368 wrote:I do not use any blockers and since I switched to Apple and Safari for our browser it is no where near as bad as windows and Internet Explorer. In fact, I am not sure one could use a blocker with Apple even if they wanted. Their current operating system is Yosemite.
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I was not aware of that.G-Force wrote:Adblock is available for safari. You can find it on the safari extensions page.Clearly_Irrational wrote:I use Ad Block Plus with Firefox on Mac when I'm at work. I have no idea if there is one for Safari though.abuss368 wrote:I do not use any blockers and since I switched to Apple and Safari for our browser it is no where near as bad as windows and Internet Explorer. In fact, I am not sure one could use a blocker with Apple even if they wanted. Their current operating system is Yosemite.
Thank you!
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Re: Ad Blockers
Kind of an old-school approach, but I just patch my hosts file so that DNS lookups for ad servers fail, and the ads don’t load. No running software to enter into the equation, and it works for all browsers equally.
Main catch is that the list needs to be updated periodically, but that’ll be the case regardless, so that’s fine for me.
Main catch is that the list needs to be updated periodically, but that’ll be the case regardless, so that’s fine for me.
Re: Ad Blockers
Ad Block kept crashing in Chrome. Problem solved, I just switched to uBlock.