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from the will-the-real-adblock-please-step-forward dept.
So I suddenly realized, I've never installed AdBlock on my Chrome install, which is why I, um, see so many ads. So I decided to install an ad blocker using the Chome Appstore. But I discovered many, many AdBlockers, all with similar names and all claiming to be "The original, the #1, the most widely-used, etc".
There's...
- AdBlock: getadblock.com
- AdBlock Plus: adblockplus.org
- Adblock Super: arena.robots@gmail.com
- AdBlock Plus for Chrome: NetClean Development
- AdBlock Plus (again?): prodovvnnet.info
- Adguard AdBlocker: adguard.com
They are all free, so what gives? I'm honestly leery because my mind goes to shovelware "productivity" apps that really just serve to harvest your data or serve you even more ads. Why would so many people, including for-profit companies, offer AdBlock for free? What am I missing here? Are there really that many altruistic people in the world?
(It reminds me of that funny Seinfeld episode.)
Oh, and if anyone knows which Adblock is the "right" one to install, please let me know. Thanks!
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday December 11 2014, @07:58PM
I have also been using AdblockPlus on Firefox for years. The recent idiocy of Firefox is still not as bad as the Google Monopoly. Not to mention, Google Chrome has always been a bit more buggy than Firefox for me. Is XYZ random webpage not working Google Chrome? Chances are that it works just fine in Firefox. That's reason enough for me not to use Google Chrome. Google's already got my e-mail. They are probably going to lose my searching to duckduckgo, though. I liked Google when they didn't have anything on their search page other than the Google Search Box. I almost switched search engines when they started putting up links to the rest of their junk on the Google search page. The only thing that kept me from it was Choice. I.E. Yahoo, still sucked.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by novak on Friday December 12 2014, @07:22AM
Another search engine that I use sometimes is ixquick. I think it does a bit better on results than duckduckgo, although https://duckduckgo.com/tty [duckduckgo.com] is legitimately the only improvement I've seen in a search engine interface since... Ever, basically.
novak