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Re: Poll: Do you use an ad-blocker?

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Voted 'yes,' but much less so than your average ad-blocker. I blacklist rather than whitelist, which is probably the opposite behavior of most people with blockers. I want to support sites that I consume content from, so by default I only block tracking beacons, not ads. I turn on content-blocking (or disable plug-ins/javascript) for specific sites when their ads make the site unusable. For example, nfl.com text arti…

I'd also like to know what you use. I want to only blacklist as well, but I can't find anything with good support for that.

Re: Poll: Do you use an ad-blocker?

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Same. I had noticed performance degradation in Chrome using ABP, and disabling made things fast again. Haven't enabled a blocker since.

I recommend uBlock ( https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock ). Really lightweight, does the job perfectly.

Thanks, I'll check it out.
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