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Today, users of the well-known "AdBlock" extension for many browsers received a popup notification telling them that the company has been sold, and the new AdBlocking Overlords have decided to allow some ads that are controlled by the "Acceptable Ads" program.
The program is opt-out, not opt-in, and will be (or has already been) enabled the next time your extension checks in. An article on how to opt-out of the Acceptable Ads program and continue to block all ads can be found here.
What advertisement blocking extension(s) do you use, and on what browser?
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AdBlock, Not Adblock or Adblock Plus (Separate Companies), has been Sold
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jdavidb on Friday October 02 2015, @03:02PM
Thanks, I checked out uBlock and may switch to it from Adblock Plus / AdBlock Plus / ABP /whatever it is I have now. Sounds like uBlock may be less resource intensive. Not only that, it has a distinguished name so I can actually use a product that I can tell apart from the other thirty extensions named some form of "adblock."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock#uBlock_Origin [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock [wikipedia.org]
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Friday October 02 2015, @03:08PM
Update: I'm trying it out. I took all the default filters plus Fanboy's Annoyance List. I wondered if I'd need to add Fanboy's Social Blocking List, but apparently social buttons are already blocked by one of the default filters.
Looks great! And so far I imagine my browser seems zippier (not sure if that's true or not). My only nit so far is it's not immediately apparent how to send in a report if I see an ad that I think should be blocked. I liked that feature of Adblock Plus.
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 2) by len_harms on Friday October 02 2015, @03:28PM
I am using ublock on a couple of boxes. The rest are still ABP.
I have to say the speed and memory usage is nice. In some ways the GUI is better. In some ways worse. For example disable is sorta permanent. So if you disable to get some site to work correctly it stays that way. Not the behavior I really want. Now that I have played with it for a month or two I would say I like the idea of 'global disable' better instead of per site. Also disabling individual filters is not as nice as it is in ABP. ABP has a nice little checkbox with ublock you have to write a counter whitelist item. Also the logging is really nicer looking and I would say better than ABP. However, it does not keep track of what is blocked. So you can see a site has 100+ blocked items and you want to look. Then you open the logging and it is empty until you refresh. But at that point the website may act differently. Those are my nitpicks with ABP.
I do like the 'total blocked items' counter. I am sitting around 11-12% blocked items. That may however be because of my usage of no-script as well.
(Score: 2) by Techwolf on Friday October 02 2015, @06:54PM
I just started to use it yesterday, got a block on sorceforge site, was able to temp unblock without a problem. "So if you disable to get some site to work correctly it stays that way." I think is an incorrect statement.
(Score: 2) by len_harms on Friday October 02 2015, @07:58PM
I think I know what you are talking about. Yeah that does work temporarily. What I was talking about it the dropdown menu item. The big blue button to disable/enable a site. That seems like it auto adds to the white-list. What I want is 'only for this session' sort of disable. Sort of like what no-script does.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday October 02 2015, @07:43PM
but apparently social buttons are already blocked by one of the default filters.
Not in my experience. I had to explicitly turn that on.
Social (2)
Anti-ThirdpartySocial (see warning inside list): CHECKED
Fanboy’s Annoyance List (forums.lanik.us):
Fanboy's Social Blocking List (forums.lanik.us): CHECKED
Without these checked I was still getting social buttons. Gone now.
I'm off to find pages with those annoying html5 popups to see if those are blocked.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Friday October 02 2015, @07:49PM
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday October 02 2015, @09:35PM
I don't have that one checked, but social buttons are blocked.
I suppose they may be blocked in both of those lists.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Techwolf on Friday October 02 2015, @06:52PM
Make sure you are using uBlock Origin and not uBlock. Different projects with different goals.
(Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Friday October 02 2015, @07:26PM
And not Ublock for Origin
as well as a bunch of other wanna-bes that are tagging along on the ublock name.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 4, Informative) by jdavidb on Friday October 02 2015, @08:05PM
ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Friday October 02 2015, @09:01PM
Yep, this saved me from making the same mistake.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh