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AdBlock Plus once blocked Google ads, till Google decided to pay them [0] to "whitelist" their ads by default. The cynical part of me sees this as a precursor f

• mp3geek 12y ago
  If you want to disable the "Allow some non-intrusive advertising", that option is available.
  • teamhappy 12y ago
    Or just use the other one: https://getadblock.com/ https://getadblock.com/
  • Loughla 12y ago
    I have adblock installed on every machine I use, and I have that unchecked. Google 'unobtrusive' ads still appear.
• Ardren 12y ago
  AdBlock Plus wants to encourage non obtrusive advertising. Anyone can apply to have their ads/website added to the acceptable-ads whitelist. Larger companies are charged a maintenance fee. There is a single checkbox in the options to toggle the whitelist, as well as a link to filter list being used and documentation. Source: https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads
  • hnha 12y ago
    Yeah, but silent tracking in the background does not seem obstructive by their definition.
    • coldpie 12y ago
      Well, it is AdBlock, not TrackingBlock. There are other extensions out there to help with that problem. Popular ones are NoScript (which improves the web in many more ways, as well) and Ghostery.
      • freehunter 12y ago
        From as often as I hear people complaining on forums like HN and reddit that a linked site doesn't work due to NoScript, I would question how many people would agree that it improves the web.
        • clarry 12y ago
          It's not "doesn't work due to noscript", it's "doesn't work because it requires javascript". The blame is on javascript, which degrades the web most of the time.
          • freehunter 12y ago
            It IS "doesn't work due to noscript". Browsers come with Javascript. Websites use Javascript. The owner of the site wrote the site using Javascript because browsers support Javascript by default. You specifically turned off Javascript, even though it's a default part of the web. You broke your experience. If you turn off your car's engine and the brakes and steering stop working, that's not the engine's fault, it's yours.
            • abdullahkhalids 12y ago
              I do remember a few years ago when everyone in web development talked about how your website has to degrade gracefully in the absence of some technology (JS, flash etc). Now nobody cares. I come across sites that won't even show me the text unless I allow fonts.googleapis.com (via RequestPolicy). The general point being the most websites I visit I am just reading text. Yet, I usually have to allow a few secondary domains (that serve JS and data), before the text gets into a form better than soup.
• tech-no-logical 12y ago
  just use adblock edge : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
  • r0h1n 12y ago
    Thanks, I already do
  • notastartup 12y ago
    and of course, it can't be installed on chrome. almost makes me want to switch to firefox completely and use adblock-edge.
    • 13throwaway 12y ago
      If you are trying to avoid being tracked by Google I don't recommend using Chrome.