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AdBlock is utterly useless these days. It doesn't block much. Some of the most astonishingly stupid ads from Taboola are let through as part of their "trusted"

AdBlock is utterly useless these days. It doesn't block much. Some of the most astonishingly stupid ads from Taboola are let through as part of their "trusted" program.

hartator 10y ago
Check out uBlock Origin. Ablock Plus doesn't have a lot of integrity.
GunlogAlm 10y ago
You can disable the displaying trusted ads, no?
- slig 10y ago
  Why bother? Just install some extension that has your best interest in mind.
- astrodust 10y ago
  Sites are making blocker blockers and squeezing in their shit quality "recommended news" garbage. It's truly appalling how bad things are.
Ajedi32 10y ago
Apparently when that happens with an "Acceptable Ad" you're supposed to report it so they can remove it from their whitelist: https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads#false-positives https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads#false-positives The only beef I really have with the Acceptable Ads program is that, since it doesn't discriminate based on ad content, only ad format, occasionally it will let through an ad where the presentation isn't annoying, but the content is. (E.g. A small static image ad that wouldn't normally be obtrusive, except it features a picture of a half-naked woman and the type of clickbaity text you'd expect to see on the cover of a tabloid.)