Well the article was specifically to challenge the claim that the problem of ABP memory consumption was mostly residing with Firefox. But in any case, regardin

Well the article was specifically to challenge the claim that the problem of ABP memory consumption was mostly residing with Firefox. But in any case, regarding your point, you can set up HTTPSB as an ad blocker and forget about it: https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/HTTP-Switchboard-as-an-ad-blocker https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/HTTP-Switchb... Advantage over ABP is that it discloses to you what is still not blocked, and you act on this information if you wish so.