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There are no good adblockers today. Most of current "adblockers" remove DIV element just because it has id="ad", without analyzing if there is any advertisement
by IvanK_net 11y ago
There are no good adblockers today. Most of current "adblockers" remove DIV element just because it has id="ad", without analyzing if there is any advertisement inside it. Simply stupid.
And since many "adblockers" are not open-source, you never know what it is doing. Software may perform censorship of the world wide web, depending on what investors tell the programmers to do.
Imagine the investor is Apple. They can make adblocker remove the the results containing "android" from your google search. I think such scenario is quite possible in the future, if users blindly trust "adblockers".
- mtrn 11y agoThey might not be perfect, but my uBlock says 611,492 or 8% blocked requests, which still helps.
- majewsky 11y agoWhat uBlock displays is merely a lower bound. Many ad scripts, when loaded, will make further requests. But with uBlock, they're never loaded, so uBlock can't count the requests that were never tried.
- k1m 11y agoDoes happen, but not such a big problem for me. I'd argue that developers/designers should be testing with ad blockers enabled.
- Jgrubb 11y agoUnless you work for a site that's ad supported, then it's the other way around unfortunately.
- r3bl 11y ago> And since many "adblockers" are not open-source, you never know what it is doing. Hmm, not entirely sure about this. * Adblock Plus: https://adblockplus.org/en/contribute-code https://adblockplus.org/en/contribute-code * uBlock: https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/ublock https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/ublock * Adblock (the original one, without the "Plus"): http://code.getadblock.com/ http://code.getadblock.com/ I could go on and on, but I would argue that these three are the most popular ones.