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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 Karunamon »

martin56 wrote: post #184
Karunamon wrote: post #171

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There is no list of sites which utilize the header and do not appear on the main allow list.

It's a whitelist for parked domains...

In what world is a page full of nothing but advertisements considered "unintrusive" and deserving of whitelisting?

Re: Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

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Post by ben__p__w »

radley wrote: post #149
chmars wrote: post #147

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I use Adblock Plus based on EasyList and I do not get any ads from Google. But that might be my custom configuration …

Not ads - Sponsored listings. A good example is the YouTube video feed; the first video is usually a Sponsored video. I wouldn't care so much except they're usually link bait videos with hot girls or people getting hurt in "funny" ways. Don't want. EasyList and other filter sets work on most AdBlock versions. I also use the social filters to speed up page load since most pages are waiting on Facebook, Pinterest, Twit…

If you're seeing ANY YouTube ads something's wrong. Report it on ABP's forum or issue tracker: https://adblockplus.org/forum/ https://issues.adblockplus.org/
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