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I used to not do Adblock, because you know, ads make the internet go round and all that. But with the "download here"-button ads, there is no way to know what button to press anymore. Now installing Adblock is a requirement.
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I don't think I'm a 'normal' user, having a 100 or so tabs open is actually idle time for me. When I'm busy it can be three times as much.
Three hundred tabs! Perhaps you might enjoy a cool feature called bookmarking. How do you keep track of them all? I get to 10 tabs before my Sheldon Cooper kicks in.
It's very much a paper analogy, highlight the interesting bits, add new stuff to the 'to read' stack, and when the 'to read' stack is empty you're done and the notes file contains the extracted information.
The note taking extension I use is called scrapbook and I couldn't live without it. I also use vertical tabs which makes it much easier to work with large numbers of tabs.
People are using µBlock now for precisely this reason. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%C2%B5block/cjpalh... https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
I tried µBlock but it seems to be extremely trigger happy. For example Youtube front page doesn't show any videos and Facebook doesn't load at all (basically it blocks everything other than its side bar). I can obviously white list those sites but my concern is that next time I visit some site for the first time I will not know if its broken or just µBlock acting up. ----- EDIT I reinstalled the plugin and the proble…
I see videos all fine on Youtube front-page, using out-of-the-box filter lists. That kind of issue was never reported for uBlock. I would need to know exactly what filter lists you were using, including custom filters.
uBlock relies on 3rd-party filter lists to do the job, specifically, out of the box:
- EasyList
- EasyPrivacy
- Fanboy's Social Blocking List
- Peter Lowe's Ad Servers
- Malware domains
Bottom line, whatever filter lists you use in uBlock, you will get the same results with the same lists with ABP.
I use a modified hosts file instead which is much better. See http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ Remember the web is pull not push.
So you'll need to go to the URL level at a minimum if you don't want to use some important functionality.
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> Even though chromium is open it won't be good for the ecosystem. You didn't mention how or why. Personally, I hope Mozilla goes away and some other group comes along to fill the void because I don't think Mozilla consists of the right group of people to make anything worth using. I'm not using any Mozilla browser until they learn how to respect the native operating system UI guidelines. Instead they're trying to bu…
Awww, looks like I have an unpopular opinion. You should totally censor it and make it disappear so that your world can be sterile and comfortable once again!
There are lots of gray boxes now all over the web, but I prefer them over resource-hungry attention-grabbing Flash ads.
Noscript is not an option anymore. Too many sites rely on javascript. I'll take the memory hit every time to use adblock.
I want to control what sites I allow to execute scripts in my browser rather than give global authority to any random site I may happen to land on.
I see no value in allowing scripts from Facebook or Twitter, for example, to run on any of the sites I visit.
I don't even use an adblocker. I simply use ghostery to block trackers and almost no ads being there anymore is a nice side-effect.
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> Even though chromium is open it won't be good for the ecosystem. You didn't mention how or why. Personally, I hope Mozilla goes away and some other group comes along to fill the void because I don't think Mozilla consists of the right group of people to make anything worth using. I'm not using any Mozilla browser until they learn how to respect the native operating system UI guidelines. Instead they're trying to bu…
Awww, looks like I have an unpopular opinion. You should totally censor it and make it disappear so that your world can be sterile and comfortable once again!