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I'd assume (without further info) that this is about the "allow some non-intrusive advertising" checkbox you get in the filter options. It's on by default, but when you install adblock (as I did a few days ago) it one of the things you go through when the configuration dialog pops up.

It links to: https://adblockplus.org/en/acc...

It's not perfect in that it's on by default, but it's easy enough to disable. Perhaps they could improve it by tying this checkbox to your "do not track" preference?

I use Ghostery and Adblock Plus on my PC and devices, I feel like I've opted out.

Yes
https://adblockplus.org/

Hosts start w/ the IP stack itself before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate, w/ also as 1st resolver queried too

Wrong. Very little of anything you're saying has anything to do with the post you're responding to. More evidence that you simply do not understand DNS. Anything you can do in a hosts file, you can do with a DNS server, and DNS servers can do many things that a hosts file can't. Like the things listed in the GP post. Blocking all of the .ru top-level domain? One config line. Do you know what's better than hard-coding your favorite sites? Whitelisting them, and blocking everything else. Do you have any idea what the difference in speed is between kernel mode and user mode? Because that one hasn't been humanly noticeable since your programming skills were relevant, about thirty years ago by now.

Your software was obsolete before you started writing it. Hosts is completely broken compared to a real local DNS server. You wrote a DNS server, and it's crap. Also you're completely psycho, and everyone knows it.

Adblock does less than hosts for speed, security, & reliability http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

FACT (prove otherwise - you can't, lol, & THUS YOU FAIL!)

Whitelisting in hosts (why you'd do that for ads boggles the mind - they steal bandwidth you paid for & INFECT US...) is easy: Don't enter things you don't want blocked OR just rightclick my program's trayicon OR rightclick popup menus to enable/disable hosts (simple) - you FAIL, again.

Admin permissions on AdBlock to even INSTALL it? Ok - time to let Wladimir Palant, "AlmostALLAdsBlocked" (crippled by default & sold out to advertisers to NOT DO ITS JOB RIGHT, lol, no less) speak on that account, again (since you can't read):

"Adblock Plus installation requires administrative privileges" - Wladimir Palant FROM -> https://adblockplus.org/develo...

APK

P.S.=> YOU FAIL, 3x in a row: "You're 'OUT'" - & you KNOW it... apk

LIE #1: Wladimir Palant says: "Adblock Plus installation requires administrative privilege" FROM https://adblockplus.org/develo...

LIE #2: Hosts can whitelist easily by NOT adding blocking entries for any particular site/server/host-domain-subdomain

AND

YOU *STILL* (lol) can't prove my points wrong in favor of hosts over adblock, so see subject-line above & this -> http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...

You fail, badly: As badly as "AlmostALLAdsBlocked", selling out to NOT TO ITS JOB, CRIPPLED BY DEFAULT & being inefficient as hell!

APK

P.S.=> Get back to us when you can show us adblock does more than hosts (not 15++x less) & for less resources consumed in CPU (flooring it as adblock does) & RAM (4++gb @ a time, what a JOKE adblock is -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... )... apk

FAIL #1 for you: Reply from Wladimir Palant: "Adblock Plus installation requires administrative privileges doesnâ(TM)t help either." FROM https://adblockplus.org/develo...

LMAO!

By way of comparison? Hosts use admin privelege + ACL & WFP to PROTECT HOSTS from exploit, stupid... it's a GOOD thing (my program furthers that by applying read-only attributes to the file also & when resident, nigh constantly, thus NOTHING is going to corrupt hosts between those things...).

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FAIL #2 on your part: Hosts can whitelist entries for sites by simply NOT ENTERING A BLOCKING ENTRY FOR SAID SITE, stupid! You can also EASILY DISABLE HOSTS via my program (1 click easy)... it's another way to achieve access to sites that are blocked (why on earth you'd do that, or takes ads, boggles the mind - they infect you &/or steal your money by stealing your bandwidth you pay monthly to be online with).

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BIGGEST FAIL OF ALL: You *STILL* can't touch the fact that hosts do FAR MORE, with far less resources consumed by far vs. "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" (sold out & crippled by default no less NOT DOING ITS JOB fully)-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

(LMAO - The "best" you can manage is to avoid that like mad, & to downmod it... weak, lame, & YOU FAIL (badly)).

APK

P.S.=> I called you stupid, since you are, clearly! You merit it based on ALL of the above - and you know it (prove otherwise: You can't)... apk

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The part of this article that has not been mentioned yet is that the developer of Adblock Plus (forked from the original Adblock) has decided to take money in exchange for allowing "non-intrusive" advertising through its lists, pretty much against the interests of it's users who don't want any ads. This puts them directly in the line of fire when media publishers get irate enough to sue, as advertisers see them as a blackmailer. You can see the whitelist of allowed sites here: https://easylist-downloads.adb... - along with Google and it's Doubleclick network, other notables and other publishers and trackers not easily recognized have paid up. Adblock Plus got the install base and trust, then they change the arrangement.

See subject-line above & "Read 'em and weep", troll https://adblockplus.org/blog/f...

"you fail: a company using insecure software " - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @05:41AM (#48456319)

LMAO - I love it... pure reverse psychology, and with proof (so much for YOUR bullshit: As I said - & as the forums folks @ MalwareBytes said: "It can happen to anyone" & yes, it did, lol... oddly enough to YOUR favorite too (neither wrote the forums board wares, so I excuse it personally - but malwarebytes did the right thing & moved their forums directly to invision OFF OF MALWAREBYTES' SERVERS - did ABP? Not afaik...)

Plus, of course, MalwareBytes IS #1 in antivirus/antispyware http://www.av-test.org/en/news... of this recent test.

APK

P.S.=> Which is only 1 of more than a few incidences I can cite on AdBlock/ABP forums OR more importantly, their data, being hacked... HOWEVER, ADBLOCK'S ACTUAL WARE DATA WAS HACKED - malwarebytes' code itself wasn't, lol!

... apk

I just don't understand how people that are a little bit tech savvy cope with ads. The first things I do on a new computer (mine or a relative/friend)is:

  - install Adblock Plus on all the browsers that support it;

  - tweak the host file to block know ads/malware domains
I haven't seen an ad in years, the web feels so quiet when you browse like that, without popups, flashes, animations, everyone crying for your attention...
Android? Rooted smartphone/tablet? No problem! Here is AdAway, basically tweaking the hosts file on the Android Linux, the same way that you do on a Windows PC.
Apple still eludes me, as my only iOS device, an iPad2 is not jailbroken, so I don't really know what's out there for it, so I still see lots of ads when browsing with it... Maybe that's the reason it's the device I do the least browsing with..

I recommend flashing your router with DDWRT if it is available to you, and then finding the walkthroughs to use that hostfile at the router level as an init script.
Even a cheap Netgear might do (research exact models on their official list first), if you want to slave it as an access point that will be blocking ads for everything on your home network. I personally have some quirks with the script where it is only running manually on every boot, but it is great to see even my way-outdated cheap devices fail to grab ads, without needing to configure each OS or browser-complement list too much.

Most of what browsers waste resources on (besides video streams, which are heavy) will fall into ad and tracking calls.
A central ad-blocking system really speeds up mobile browsing experience and probably has a small effect on bandwidth, battery live and my patience.

I just don't understand how people that are a little bit tech savvy cope with ads. The first things I do on a new computer (mine or a relative/friend)is:
  - install Adblock Plus on all the browsers that support it;
  - tweak the host file to block know ads/malware domains
I haven't seen an ad in years, the web feels so quiet when you browse like that, without popups, flashes, animations, everyone crying for your attention...
Android? Rooted smartphone/tablet? No problem! Here is AdAway, basically tweaking the hosts file on the Android Linux, the same way that you do on a Windows PC.
Apple still eludes me, as my only iOS device, an iPad2 is not jailbroken, so I don't really know what's out there for it, so I still see lots of ads when browsing with it... Maybe that's the reason it's the device I do the least browsing with..

Why not just go to their site. Or if you install it, you can look at the list of "nice rules".

Today's list is here.

I can't find where they define what constitutes a "well-behaved" site, but from the list you pointed me to, it's clear they we tremendously disagree about who is well-behaved.

Today's list is here. Just look for all lines starting with an exclamation mark - they'll tell you the intent of the following lines.

Of course, you're free to edit it to your preferences and restart the browser.

"IE, well ... treat IE like the thing you use for work when all else fails. Because there's always another exploit around the corner."
Meh, I don't recall ever having much of a problem with IE. On the topic, there is a whole "tracking protection" section under IE accelerators. I block most all of it with these 4 easy to add addons:

http://easylist-msie.adblockpl...
http://easylist-msie.adblockpl...
http://www.privacychoice.org/t...
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdr...

"IE, well ... treat IE like the thing you use for work when all else fails. Because there's always another exploit around the corner."
Meh, I don't recall ever having much of a problem with IE. On the topic, there is a whole "tracking protection" section under IE accelerators. I block most all of it with these 4 easy to add addons:

http://easylist-msie.adblockpl...
http://easylist-msie.adblockpl...
http://www.privacychoice.org/t...
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdr...

There's a filter list for that: Adblock Warning Removal List

I must say the most annoying popups are not even ads. I mean these incredibly stupid EU-mandated cookie warnings (if I didn't want cookies I'd set up my browser to reject them). Fortunately there's a filter list for them too: Prebake

Ah, it took me a while to find it. Under Filter preferences... there's a checkbox for "Allow some non-intrusive advertising." It was already checked when I first found it -- the documentation says it's enabled by default. It doesn't seem to allow much advertising through, yet. Maybe if more advertisers read about the feature and sign the Acceptible Ads Manifesto that will change.

Google purposely don't allow you to block the ads in android

Checkmate.

I run it, and it works. The main caveat is that a cellular connection will not go through the proxy, and you have to configure each wi-fi connection to use the proxy separately.

Ugh. Hosts file blocking is stupid. In point of fact, there are very few legitimate uses of the hosts file, and this is not one of them. AdBlock is the right tool, because it can actually filter based on the URL, not just the domain. It also blocks the request much sooner in the process. Why bother doing a DNS request at all for something you are going to block? Also, after the DNS search ends, the computer will still attempt to connect to that address and retrieve the content requested. I don't mean to imply that DNS-level blocking is never appropriate, but if you're going to do that, the most appropriate option is to use a fucking DNS server, so that your changes to domain name resolution are centralized and available to the entire network. It will also let you return NXDOMAIN instead of an IP address, which is much closer to what you want.

But really what you want, if the subject is ad blocking, is not to block the domain, but the content being served from that domain. The quote "there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong." is perfectly descriptive of both the historical and current use of the hosts file. It happens to be an accessible place for you to throw your monkey wrench in, but it's not what that's for and it does it badly by any measure. Massive APK-style hosts files have truly terrible performance: either they're indexed in memory, which becomes painful probably at about the 1 GB mark, or they are stored (unindexed, at least on Windows) on disk, and read line-by-line whenever you need to do a DNS search. Keep in mind that unless a match is found the entire hosts file will be read, and then a DNS request will be sent. Also keep in mind that fetching things stored in memory on the local network is at least 10x faster than disk access.

For more information on appropriate uses of the hosts file, see here. Note that they don't have anything to do with content blocking, because DNS is the wrong tool for that.

Forgot to close the ahref link. ... my bad

Adblock for IE is here https://adblockplus.org/en/int...

So how do you really trust them?

However, Chrome is getting many patches recently between versions due to flaws in blink and flash. So the idea to blame IE as still sucking is disingenuous.

The point is always upgrade your browser and OS in addition to running adblock/flashblock, or if you are a corp banning flash and java altogether. The port of adblock for IE is here.

Many IT professionals who whine about leaving XP and IE 8 behind should be FIRED. IE 11 sandbox is fine for this. If you run WIndows 7 or later both IE 9+ and Chrome have lowrights mode which restrict everything include writting to the disk with the narrow exception of %appdata.

These days most of the infections I see come from Firefox and plugins. Firefox has no lowrights mode and if anyone reading this is using XP you neglect sandboxing on all browsers and expose yourself.

here.

Basically by default it filters the bad ads. However you can filter all ads if you wish and that option is there. I like this method as to reward SOME advertisement if done properly to support websites.

Also the bad guys can simply get another host so your hostfile will always be out of date.

Unfortunately this is unreasonable to go in there everytime you need to watch a video from a site.

The good news adblock has an IE add-on which blocks most of the bad flash sites from hacked advertisers.

https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads-agreements

Do companies pay you for being added to the list?

Whitelisting is free for all small- and medium websites and blogs. However, managing this list requires significant effort on our side and this task cannot be completely taken over by volunteers as it happens with common filter lists. That's why we are being paid by some larger properties that serve non-intrusive advertisements that want to participate in the Acceptable Ads initiative.

Oh come on! For the last time, there are two major extensions called "AdBlock". This one is the good one. This is the one you're talking about which accepts payment to skip being "blocked". It's so shitty it's not even worth being talked about. Just skip it and get the first one. I haven't seen an ad in years.

They already have. The option to allow ads from people that have paid AdBlock is checked by default. https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/exceptionrules.txt

Internet users have sadly grown used to having their every click and scroll measured by advertisers

Nope, EasyPrivacy and some other subscriptions for AdBlock alongside Noscipt and Ghostery aren't that hard to use nowadays, no need to surrender your privacy.

Adblock plus for android does the same. On unrooted phones need to manually add localhost as proxie. On rooted phones nothing. Blocks ads on almost all apps, not only Firefox. https://adblockplus.org/en/android-install

My problem is that I use multiple windows, on multiple desktops, each with multiple tabs. And when I'm watching one thing, another page decides "This might be a good time to tell Jeremy about "Charmin Ultrasoft"

Two words: AdBlock Plus.

A: https://adblockplus.org/

The site-breaking of NoScript is why I switched to AdBlockPlus with relevant auto-updating filters, which achieves the same thing with far fewer headaches... The rare times that it eliminates something I really want, I take a few minutes to set an exception filter (which will be as widespread as I need) and just go back to what I was doing. SO much less aggravating than NS was...

(anon due to mod points)

Ohmagerd! Ahma terrrrrist!

What ads? I don't know what you're talking about.

Of course, my device is rooted - and I claim it's irresponsible for carriers to try to prevent users from doing such.

AdBlock doesn't do any of those things, all it does is prevent your browser from sending requests to specific IP's which the Adblock people have decided are serving ads.

AdBlock Plus (the most popular adblocker) is much more sophisticated than that. It doesn't block by IP address, it blocks by hostname, URLs, and even attributes of HTML elements (type of tag, CSS class, ID, etc). Details here.

As another user pointed out, the lists of filters are updated often (daily?) Though most lists only block advertising, some also block different types of tracking and those obnoxious social networking links. It is true that AdBlock Plus, even with filter lists to block advertising, tracking/analytics, and external social networking links won't prevent all possible forms of tracking, but it is a good compromise for security/privacy and convenience for most people.

The internet is a cesspool of spammy, useless ads, and sex ads. Nice try, Twitter, but I already have a pleasant viewing experience without having to fork out money to get rid of ads.

If anyone wishes to join me on this side, it's much greener: Go Here

People will voluntarily subscribe.

If it was voluntary there would be no issue. The problem is that this program is not voluntary, and is not disclosed. If the NSA were to offer such a (voluntary) service, I would even consider using it for a subset of my data (next mission- to see how many pictures of cats holding grenade launchers I can photoshop per week).

They could even serve ads to make the yanks feel at home

Adblock. NSA -> No Such Advertisement

and generate some income

This is clearly not the interest of the NSA or any other branch of the U.S. government.

What keeps me from using Midori in this cases is the lack of FlashBlock (ABP works very well in it - besides this, its really a nice extremely light browser!)

It (https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-br/firefox/addon/flashblock/), and http://adblockplus.org/, keeps Firefox usable on Old computers

simples...

Since Firefox has started their crazy version numbering, I've given up on upgrading. I use 27 different addons and perfectly configured to make my web browser do what I want. It is near impossible to do an upgrade without spending hours reconfiguring the addons, some of which need to be manually downloaded and have their "MaxVersion" incremented so they will install. Maybe in 6 more months when we reach Firefox 50 I'll give it a try, but until then. Firefox 8 all the way!

Application: Firefox 8.0 (20111104165243)
Total number of items: 27

- Active Stop Button 1.4.10
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/active-stop-button/
- Adblock Plus 1.3.10
http://adblockplus.org/en/
- BetterPrivacy 1.68
http://nc.ddns.us/extensions.html
- ColorfulTabs 7.1
http://www.binaryturf.com/free-software/colorfultabs-for-firefox/
- Cookie Monster 1.1.0
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monster/?src=api
- Copy Link Name 1.3.2
http://www.captaincaveman.nl/
- Download Statusbar 0.9.10
http://downloadstatusbarapp.com/
- DownloadHelper 4.9.14
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
- DownThemAll! 2.0.8
http://downthemall.net/
- Export Cookies 1.2
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/?src=api
- Find Toolbar Tweaks 3.0.0
http://homepage3.nifty.com/georgei/extension/ftt_en.html
- Firebug 1.8.4
http://www.getfirebug.com/
- Greasemonkey 0.9.13
http://www.greasespot.net/
- HeaderControlRevived 1.1
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/headercontrolrevived/?src=api
- Hide Caption Titlebar Plus 2.4.1
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/13505/
- Menu Editor 1.2.7
http://menueditor.mozdev.org/
- Movable Firefox Button 1.4
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movable-firefox-button/
- NoScript 2.1.7
http://noscript.net/
- OptimizeGoogle 0.78.2
http://www.optimizegoogle.com/
- RequestPolicy 0.5.27
http://www.requestpolicy.com/
- Screen Capture Elite 2.0.0.23
http://www.grizzlyape.com/
- Searchbastard 1.5.5
http://searchbastard.rosell.dk/
- SkipScreen 0.6.1.2

http://adblockplus.org/
that'll be $2 please.

What

ads?

like http://adblockplus.org/?

That's what the default "allow acceptable 3rd-party cookies" caveat will be for. People keep the option, and Larry Page keeps the financially-induced control.

The Internet is not for advertising, yes, that's true. But see what AdBlock Plus considers non-intrusive adversiting--this is their whitelist kept online if Allow some non-intrusive advertising is checked, as opposed to just using Block Everywhere:

https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/exceptionrules.txt

(Includes, Amazon, Doubleclick, and Google domains.)

Which ones? Where's Adblock Plus for iOS? :P

Here it is

Enjoy.

Which ones? Where's Adblock Plus for iOS? :P

You do not need to block links to get rid of ads. One of the powers of Adblock+ is element blocking.

http://adblockplus.org/en/filters

Wonder how long it will be before you have to agree to a ToS requiring you to look at ads before being allowed to view a site...

The owner of mmorpg.com called ad block users pirates. I deleted my account and never went back. Same will go to anyone who tries to force me to look at ads. I WILL NOT COMPLY,

Oh I don't know about that, I have a feeling that DNT works fine, the problem is advertisers not respecting it more than anything as we all know. I have a feeling that the Chromium [chromium.org] will implement something that makes DNT work...properly.

You mean like this?

This is the last box you'll ever need to tick honey.

http://adblockplus.org/