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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.
Adblock would not be a trademarkable name anyway. It's a generic term that describes what the product is.
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Adblock would not be a trademarkable name anyway. It's a generic term that describes what the product is.
Don't tell Microsoft! (Windows, Word, Surface, etc.) Or Apple! (Pages, Numbers, etc.)
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...
Do ublock has a mode/plugin that enable me to select objects on a HTML page for custom blocking? For adblock I use Element Hiding Helper which I use rather often.
I've always wondered what happens if a browser extension gets taken over by an entity someday that puts in bad code after millions of people have it installed and it gets auto-updated. Sure it's open-source and will get noticed eventually, but there will be days if not weeks of exposure. Same thing for all those android apps you have installed. If it doesn't add permissions, you'll never get a warning that something…
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 don't know what it does, but I bet it's not good.
Curious why I can't offload this task to a DNS server? If such a solution truly doesn't exist (and I don't mean OpenDNS), would anyone like to talk about building something like that?
DNS doesn't provide nearly enough precision for ad blocking. Many servers serve both ads and content. Random example: some sites host actual non-ad video content on doubleclick.
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...
Do ublock has a mode/plugin that enable me to select objects on a HTML page for custom blocking? For adblock I use Element Hiding Helper which I use rather often.
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It is open source. http://code.getadblock.com/releases/ Edit: Found the right fork https://adblockplus.org/source
As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion AdBlock is not Adblock Plus. The second link you posted is for the Adblock Plus source code. Unfortunately at the moment the AdBlock Git repository is not public, but I have set up this unofficial one that tracks the changes between each zip published on their releases page. https://github.com/kzar/watchadblock Specifically if you want to see what they've changed so far have…
Nice, this makes it much easier to track changes. For those interested, here is a URL which can be used as a template to diff across releases:
https://github.com/kzar/watchadblock/compare/[old version]...[new version]
For example, for all the changes between releases 2.40 and 2.41.1:
