Adblock Browser for Android

Post by 0xndc » Wed, May 20, 2015, 5:04 PM UTC

yohui wrote: post #31

Aissen wrote: post #13

Or you can use uBlock Origin on Firefox for Android and never look back.

uBlock Origin: - Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa... - FIrefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ - GitHub: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock It works well on both mobile and desktop Firefox. Less resource-intensive than Adblock Plus. Too bad mobile Chrome doesn't support extensions yet.

It probably never will. See [1] and the Chrome team's FAQ at [2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/35v8gi/we_are_the_...

[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zg-66E4LsHuvvwz8CnA0dy7X...

Post by anonymousab » Fri, May 22, 2015, 5:33 AM UTC

rm999 wrote: post #16

Raphmedia wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of people will say that they don't mind ads that are quiet, targeted and relevant. It's popups for viagra that they don't want. Hell, even those that are correctly targeted by the ads end up being scammed. The extension should really more be called "malware blocker" or something like this, since they are not really against ads.

It sounds good in theory, but large websites cannot be added to the whitelist without paying. This implies to me that revenue is higher on ABP's priority list than encouraging "good" ads. If ABP really wanted to make the biggest impact they would actively encourage the largest websites to get whitelisted. https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads-agreements#payment

It's a curated ad system that offloads the cost onto the advertiser. For the end-user that makes a lot of sense.

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