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Adblock+ has been fine for me. Has anyone had any problems? Personally, Adblock+ has earned my trust over a long period of time, so it's hard to see myself sw

Adblock+ has been fine for me. Has anyone had any problems? Personally, Adblock+ has earned my trust over a long period of time, so it's hard to see myself switching to something else unless the reason was dire.

batiudrami 13y ago
This is a response to an article[1] on memory use, and specifically a bug/limitation of ABP which causes it to use large amounts of memory (1GB+) on web pages which utilise many iframes. [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-pluss-effect-on-firefoxs-memory-usage/ https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus...
mkesper 13y ago
Trusting Adblock is hard because of the "acceptable ads" feature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversy_over_ad_filtering_and_ad_whitelisting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversy_over_...
- zorbo 13y ago
  As far as I know (anybody please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this), it's Adblock PLUS that can't be trusted. Adblock (without the plus) is a completely separate project that's much more trustworthy. Adblock PLUS basically usurped Adblock by appending a "plus", making it seem like it's somehow better than Adblock.
  - Spittie 12y ago
    It's not like that. A long time ago (2005?) there was an extension for Firefox called "Adblock". Eventually the development of this extension died, and it got forked with the name "Adblock Plus" in 2006 or so. The Adblock you're referring to (the Chrome-only extension, right?) was published in 2009. As you can see, Adblock Plus predates it by 3 years or so.
    - zorbo 12y ago
      Good to know, thanks for the correction.
- harkyns_castle 12y ago
  I shifted to using Adblock Edge [1] after that. I got a good chuckle out of the term 'acceptable ads' though. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
- fernandotakai 12y ago
  you can use adblock edge [0] -- it's a fork without the whitelist for ads [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
gorhill 12y ago
You don't have to switch. The code is GPLv3, rather modular, and if they decline to import it, the idea behind it can be easily implemented.
acjohnson55 12y ago
My biggest problem is the memory usage. I use a lot of tabs at once, and I'm regularly finding myself swapping on an 8GB MBP.

batiudrami 13y ago

This is a response to an article[1] on memory use, and specifically a bug/limitation of ABP which causes it to use large amounts of memory (1GB+) on web pages which utilise many iframes. [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-pluss-effect-on-firefoxs-memory-usage/ https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus...

mkesper 13y ago

Trusting Adblock is hard because of the "acceptable ads" feature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversy_over_ad_filtering_and_ad_whitelisting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversy_over_...

zorbo 13y ago
As far as I know (anybody please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this), it's Adblock PLUS that can't be trusted. Adblock (without the plus) is a completely separate project that's much more trustworthy. Adblock PLUS basically usurped Adblock by appending a "plus", making it seem like it's somehow better than Adblock.
- Spittie 12y ago
  It's not like that. A long time ago (2005?) there was an extension for Firefox called "Adblock". Eventually the development of this extension died, and it got forked with the name "Adblock Plus" in 2006 or so. The Adblock you're referring to (the Chrome-only extension, right?) was published in 2009. As you can see, Adblock Plus predates it by 3 years or so.
  - zorbo 12y ago
    Good to know, thanks for the correction.
harkyns_castle 12y ago
I shifted to using Adblock Edge [1] after that. I got a good chuckle out of the term 'acceptable ads' though. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
fernandotakai 12y ago
you can use adblock edge [0] -- it's a fork without the whitelist for ads [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/

gorhill 12y ago

You don't have to switch. The code is GPLv3, rather modular, and if they decline to import it, the idea behind it can be easily implemented.

acjohnson55 12y ago

My biggest problem is the memory usage. I use a lot of tabs at once, and I'm regularly finding myself swapping on an 8GB MBP.