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Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by aen0 »

beaumartinez wrote: post #5

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…

I highly recommends HTTPS Switchboard or uBlock (same author). They are both faster and better than any Adblocker out there.

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by mer10z »

eik3_de wrote: post #7
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

Adblock Edge is a fork of the Adblock Plus version 2.1.2 extension for blocking advertisements on the web, without sponsored ads whitelist.

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by Gracana »

diminoten wrote: post #3

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

I don't like it either, but on the other hand, ABP works pretty well, and I can uncheck the "allow unobtrusive advertising" on the main settings page. Is it worth making a stand on this issue? What should I do or use instead?

[edit] Hmm, I'm not just talking to myself here, the post I replied to is gone. Not sure how that happens, but in any case I was responding to a comment about how ABP whitelists certain ads (such as those from the companies that support the ABP servers, apparently.)

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by nodata »

beaumartinez wrote: post #5

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…

Does it come prebaked with categories of URLs?

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by Theodores »

leephillips wrote: post #4

Privoxy.

I think you are right. However not a lot of people use privoxy compared to the many users of adblock-whatever. Also there aren't many people putting together their own squid3 build with custom list of sites to block.

Neither of these tools take that much effort to setup on a linux machine if you know what you are doing and have a rough idea of how the internet works.

Consequently, for people that cannot be bothered to invest the 10-20 minutes to get privoxy working, the less than perfect solutions offered by the adblock-whatever freebees are okay by me.

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by mayneack »

freshyill wrote: post #10
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?

Here's one: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by packetlss »

nodata wrote: post #14
beaumartinez wrote: post #5

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…

Does it come prebaked with categories of URLs?

Yes.

Have a look at https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/HTTP-Switchb...

If you just want Adblocking functionality check out https://github.com/gorhill/ublock

Same author as HTTPSB.

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by diminoten »

Gracana wrote: post #13
diminoten wrote: post #3

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

I don't like it either, but on the other hand, ABP works pretty well, and I can uncheck the "allow unobtrusive advertising" on the main settings page. Is it worth making a stand on this issue? What should I do or use instead? [edit] Hmm, I'm not just talking to myself here, the post I replied to is gone. Not sure how that happens, but in any case I was responding to a comment about how ABP whitelists certain ads (suc…

Well, I'd suggest using nothing (or noscript if you're actually just concerned about exploits), but if this Internet community is like any other Internet community, I'm probably in a very small minority.

I actually have pretty strong opinions on the matter, but they're entirely tangential and irrelevant, and not really in the spirit of HN, so I'll keep them to myself.

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by nkozyra »

diminoten wrote: post #3

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

The argument is that they're not blocking all ads, but they're blocking ads of poor quality, are overtly disruptive (ostensibly the name of the game in advertising) or are potentially harmful to users.

Which is why you can opt in/out of things like Google Adwords.

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