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Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

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Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

#71
post #9

To anyone who is concerned by this change, I recommend taking a look at μBlock Origin [1,2]. It's blazingly fast, very flexible, and under active development. I made the switch about a year ago and it has served me very well. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

I've been using it for a month now. Can't recommend it more.

"Can't recommend it enough" is what you meant to say, I want to believe.

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

#72
post #26

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Works great on Firefox for Android, too. No more app store popups!

That's the straw that broke the camel's back for me, personally. A lot of sites out there were becoming completely unreadable.

For me it was mostly those building up a slow rage, and then an audio ad was what actually pissed me off enough to drop whatever I was doing and install it.

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

#73
post #26
post #9

To anyone who is concerned by this change, I recommend taking a look at μBlock Origin [1,2]. It's blazingly fast, very flexible, and under active development. I made the switch about a year ago and it has served me very well. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

Works great on Firefox for Android, too. No more app store popups!

My Problem is that Chrome feels so much more responsive than Firefox, when scrooling.

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

#74

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I've been using it for a month now. Can't recommend it more.

"Can't recommend it enough" is what you meant to say, I want to believe.

I think GP meant it as a compliment, and a synonym of your phrase.

> Can't recommend it more.

"I'm physically incapable of recommending it more often/strongly because I'm using my full strength to recommend it already"

> Can't recommend it enough

"I'm physically incapable of recommending it as frequently/strongly as it deserves because I have exhausted my strength in so doing"

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

#75
post #64

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Did you click the setting "Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP addresses"? If so, this will prevent Hangout from working. Reference issue: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/757

Oh I had no idea that would prevent it from working. I wish they made that clear. Thanks!

> I wish they made that clear

I agree, I opened an issue to address this: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/773

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

#76
post #9

To anyone who is concerned by this change, I recommend taking a look at μBlock Origin [1,2]. It's blazingly fast, very flexible, and under active development. I made the switch about a year ago and it has served me very well. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

or just stay with Adblock Plus which isn't affected by this change...

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

#77
post #9

To anyone who is concerned by this change, I recommend taking a look at μBlock Origin [1,2]. It's blazingly fast, very flexible, and under active development. I made the switch about a year ago and it has served me very well. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

I like uBlock a lot. With default deny 3rd party, or even some other settings enabled, I find it breaks the back button often, or I have to reload the page at google to search again. ANyone else have these issues.

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

#78

And uninstalled. Are any of the adblockers open source? So, I can take a look at the code, and learn how they work.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

Let's hope they trademark the name... After reading the comment above about Adblock, AdBlock, and Adblock Plus, it would be much easier to know exactly what product the news is about.

Re: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company

#79
post #25

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Okay this is why we have registered trademarks. You're telling me that Adblock, Adblock Plus, and AdBlock are three separate things? What the hell? I just assumed they were all the same thing until now.

I kept rereading OP's comment and looking for the difference between Adblock and AdBlock. It wasn't until your comment that I noticed the capital B in Block. Trademarks FTW. Great example of confusion in the marketplace.

I read through nearly the entire thread thinking that the Adblock mentioned had a capital B.
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