Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by XzetaU8 » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 3:10 PM UTC

Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?
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Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

#2

Post by sogen » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 3:21 PM UTC

I'm loving ublock https://github.com/gorhill/ublock

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

#3

Post by diminoten » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 3:25 PM UTC

Ooh, whitelisting of ads via partnerships. That's shady as fuck for an ad blocking company.

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by leephillips » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 3:26 PM UTC

Privoxy.

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by beaumartinez » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 3:27 PM UTC

I've posted this on previous ad blocking threads, and I'll post it again because I think it's very relevant—

> "Adblock without the plus" isn't the original Adblock (from which Adblock Plus was forked), it's an extension created for Google Chrome once Google Chrome enabled support for extensions. Very disingenuous name. It piggy-backed on the work already done for Adblock Plus (for Firefox).

> Adblock Plus for Google Chrome came much later.

Nowadays, I use and recommend HTTP switchboard[0]. It's fully open[1], and offers very powerful customization on what exactly to block on a site.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/http-switchboard/m...

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by leeoniya » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 3:29 PM UTC

i havent used Adblock Plus in some time. A combination of Noscript blocking third party js (with some domains/cdns whitelisted) and Ghostery takes care of 90% of annoying stuff without bloating mem usage and improving page load speed drastically.

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by eik3_de » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 3:30 PM UTC

diminoten wrote: post #3

Ooh, whitelisting of ads via partnerships. That's shady as fuck for an ad blocking company.

see http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversy_over...

I'd never use Adblock Plus, that's more than shady

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by callesgg » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 3:30 PM UTC

I have a long /etc/host file with many of the worst tracking/ad services that i have found. Blocks of a very large portion of the stuff that i do not like.

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by sudorank » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 3:31 PM UTC

sogen wrote: post #2

I'm loving ublock https://github.com/gorhill/ublock

Sounds interesting, might check it out tonight.

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by freshyill » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 3:31 PM UTC

callesgg wrote: post #8

I have a long /etc/host file with many of the worst tracking/ad services that i have found. Blocks of a very large portion of the stuff that i do not like.

I would love to see this list! Could you post it in a Gist or somewhere?