I’ve been informed that adblock plus sort of sucks now. If you’re looking for one, go for UBlock Origin.

  • The Picard ManeuverOPM
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    911 year ago

    I’m not an expert on these and didn’t realize there was a difference. Did this one sell out?

    • @[email protected]
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      1791 year ago

      Yes, they allow certain “non-obtrusive” ads by default. Some people might be fine with this, but it should absolutely be opt-in, and their deal with an ad company is the only reason it’s the default.

      • @[email protected]
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        801 year ago

        I miss non obtrusive adds, remember when add blockers weren’t a thing and we were all fine with the adds in the sidebar trying to sell us virus laden glittery custom mouse cursors? Instead we have an arms race where the net is essentially unuseable without an add blocker.

        • @[email protected]
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          591 year ago

          I’m guessing you missed the time period where opening the wrong page would give you an infinite loop of un-closeable pop-up windows with background music.

          Ads were never really non-obtrusive. If advertisers could force you to listen to their slogan at max volume every time you opened your browser, they would do so without hesitation. If you ever saw an easily avoidable ad in the late 90s-early 00s, it wasn’t for lack of trying. They simply hadn’t personally figured out more annoying methods yet.

          • @[email protected]
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            161 year ago

            I’m guessing you missed the time period where opening the wrong page would give you an infinite loop of un-closeable pop-up windows with background music.

            Now we’re graced with its spiritual successor - the full-screen browser tab that looks like an “antivirus” warning designed to freak people out and get them to call the 800 number to grant remote access to “fix” the virus.

        • @[email protected]
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          191 year ago

          What magical era is this? Because the before-adblocker time I remember was a hellscape of pop-over popups, sometimes many of them from opening a single web page.

        • Blaster M
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          131 year ago

          … ah, those were the days, of flash player ads that would grind your system to a halt with anti-aliased particle spam, minigames, and perhaps a virus too.

          Or the sneaky, stealthy, cpu grinding carpet bomb of the pop-under ads, only visible after you close the browsing window.

      • @[email protected]
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        241 year ago

        Unless I heard wrong, I was under the impression that to be considered “non-intrusive” all the ad company had to do was pay adblock Plus.

        Ublock Origin is king

    • @[email protected]
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      181 year ago

      A tale of 3 adblockers

      ABP allows “acceptable” ads that are acceptable insofar as they meet certain standards one of which is paying them money effectively renting your eyeballs to advertisers.

      Ublock Origin: A powerful and performant ad blocker by its creator

      Ublock. After the above dev tried to pass the torch to the loser who now controls this he instantly edited information removing all information about the person who actually created it and fund raise off it to the point where the original dev renamed his fork of his own work Ublock origin after it was taken down on behalf of the scumbag who now runs ublock.

      In short there is no reason to use anything but Ublock origin