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Quick ref to get rid of Google Ads (and some others too) on Adblock Plus: FOR CHROME: Go to "Settings" Find Extensions in the list on the left Find AdBlock,
by jpdoctor 13y ago
Quick ref to get rid of Google Ads (and some others too) on Adblock Plus:
FOR CHROME:
Go to "Settings"
Find Extensions in the list on the left
Find AdBlock, select "Options"
Click the tab "Filter Lists"
Uncheck: "Allow some non-intrusive advertising"
FOR FIREFOX:
Go to the Firefox menu in the upper left corner
Select "Add-ons"
Select "Extensions"
Find Adblock Plus, select Options.
Find the "Filter Preferences" Button
Select the tab "Filter Subscriptions"
Uncheck: "Allow some non-intrusive advertising"
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- cake 13y agoAnd don't forget to support the websites that you visit the most by whitelisting them.
- programminggeek 13y agoUm, that's dumb unless you plan on clicking their ads. Seriously, just showing a CPC ad doesn't help them. Showing a CPM ad doesn't help much either if they are getting $5-10 CPM. You literally could just pay them $5 or $10 and be more valuable than whitelisting them.
- eli 13y agoYes, and some sites do charge $5 or $10 for access or for additional features. But I'm glad the whole web doesn't work that way.
- tomflack 13y agoIf a site can show they have a lower percentage of adblock users than standard, it's a boon for them. If I am not blocking their ads, there is a chance I'll see something that interests me and click on it. You don't need to explicitly state "I will click ads every day" to make it not "dumb".
- CrazedGeek 13y agoAlternatively, for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
- 1qaz2wsx3edc 13y agoJust to clarify, on chrome if you're using AdBlock (vs Adblock Plus), there is no such options. :)
- gcb0 13y agoStill shocks me that people on this site uses those lame extrensions (which are a security risk no less) someonewhocares.org/hosts_zero/ Save this hosts file in your house's router and be safely free of advertising, shock sites, tracking.... On ALL devices With no added attack vector as with an extension and not limited to one browser in one device
- medde 13y agoI use a browser that blocks nothing and one that blocks almost everything. (when something breaks, sometimes it's easier to load it in a stock browser)
- driverdan 13y agoHow exactly are ad blocking extensions a security risk? Blocking at the domain level gives you no control. What if you need to see what a site looks like without ads blocked? I have a few of my own content sites that use ads. By blocking outside of the browser I wouldn't be able to see what they look like to other users.
- 3pt14159 13y agoBecause they could be updated and now your whole browser is pwnd. This is how sites like Compete.com get their metrics.
- smsm42 13y agoThere's nothing different from any other extension, so what you're saying nobody should be using extensions in their browsers. Good luck with convincing people not to do it.
- coldtea 13y agoWell, I for one don't use any extensions with Chrome. And not even from security concerns. Just from lack of any interest to do so. Why should I? For some marginal utility? I'd take it more average people don't use extensions either -- if they know what they are in the first place.
- takluyver 13y agoOn the other hand, I'm really pleased to find that they're whitelisting some ads by default, although I'm disappointed that money factors into it. I use ad blockers, because so much of the web is a hideous mess without them. But I'm somewhat conflicted about it, because I know that a lot of sites depend on ad revenue. I see this as a kind of collective agreement with advertisers: I don't mind adverts, but I don't want them flashing all over my screen when I'm trying to get stuff done.
- wallunit 13y agoI don't think that you have any reason to feel disappointed, unless you have donated a significant amount of money to Adblock Plus. And even then, just disable that feature. After all that's the way Adblock Plus makes most of its money, needed to develop the browser extension, port it to new platforms, maintaining and hosting the filter lists (which by the way are also used by every other ad blocker). I doubt that if Adblock Plus wouldn't have done this step, it would have ever been ported to other browsers and platforms, and that the filter lists (as mentioned, also used by other ad blockers, like AdBlock), would have been that well curated as of today. So I don't see anything wrong with that. Or does anybody complain, that most free Android apps show adds, and you have to buy the paid version, to get rid of them? No, everybody understands that this is the way they make money. The only difference in case of Adblock Plus is, that you don't actually have to give them money, but just have to disable a checkbox in the options.
- tr4656 13y agoBy disabling that feature, he would block all ads. However, he did say that he wants to support sites who rely on ad revenue. I don't think supporting Adblock Plus was what he was really concerned about.
- wallunit 13y agoI might got his message slightly wrong. However white listing is is a feature in the filter list format itself, that is used ever since by every ad blocker. So you can include third-party white lists or maintain your own with every ad blocker, already before Adblock Plus introduced "Acceptable Ads" and its own white list.
- adPothier 13y agoCombined with AdBlock, I use Ghostery[1], which is a nice add-on (Chrome/FF/Safari/Opera/IE) : it blocks any javascript from ads networks, but also from analytics, trackers, socials plugins (and more) , and also cookies from the same trackers. Everything is configurable per-tracker and per-website. It's quite a must-have if you don't want to be the product on the Internet. And a good failover over Ad-block. [1]. http://www.ghostery.com/ http://www.ghostery.com/
- mparramon 13y agoAnother alternative is blacklisting sites via your hosts file, which means it applies to all applications and not only the browser. Also, it works in any UNIX-based OS: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/