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Opera:
Has a builtin adblocker, if you want to be able to choose whatever flash anims will run or not you can to. Adsweep works on Opera as well if you don't want to set up your own rules.

Chrome:
For chrome you need to switch to the developer snapshot channel to be able to load addons such as adsweep.

Safari:
I don't remember what I ran, Pithelmet is used by many but I often find it outdated. If you want something which just block ads as in Firefox with Adblock plus you can use adblock.

To almost claim only firefox is able to block ads is kinda ignorant.

Opera:
Has a builtin adblocker, if you want to be able to choose whatever flash anims will run or not you can to. Adsweep works on Opera as well if you don't want to set up your own rules.

Chrome:
For chrome you need to switch to the developer snapshot channel to be able to load addons such as adsweep.

Safari:
I don't remember what I ran, Pithelmet is used by many but I often find it outdated. If you want something which just block ads as in Firefox with Adblock plus you can use adblock.

To almost claim only firefox is able to block ads is kinda ignorant.

And I'd like to jump on the bandwagon of commenters pointing out that blaming extensions for contriubting to browser bloat is like faulting sour milk for ruining your cereal.

Like mister_playboy, I really don't consider "auto update" a feature. I uninstalled Chrome and installed SRWare Iron instead because I do not want some braindead Google Update service running constantly.

But, Iron also removes the browser's unique identifier and provides a proper installer (Chrome will only install per-user, in their profile).

If you're thinking about Chrome, get Iron instead. It supports AdBlock.

Come. We have cookies.

See http://adsweep.org/ - not nearly as flexible as AdBlock but does the job for the most part.

Try AdSweep. Don't know if it works on the Mac/Linux versions, but it works on version 4 of the Windows build.

what about adsweep?

AdSweep: http://adsweep.org/ AdBlock+: http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/adblock/ FlashBlock: http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/flashblock/ I actually have been using AdSweep, but I just discovered that there actually is an AdBlock+ for Chrome. I can't seem to find a link for the NoScript equivalent, but I know it's out there. I used to have it. Just use that other Google product to search for it.

Until it has that or built in addblock and vimperator, no chrome here.

So run the dev channel. It has extensions today. Yes, including ad blockers. Dev channel is actually perfectly usable if you don't mind the occasional disembodied head taking the place of a button. Dev channel Chrome has been my primary browser for over a year now.

Me too. Best part is, you can get Glen's head back by running "google-chrome --glen". (At least on Linux.) I highly recommend you freak out all your fellow Chrome users by changing their browser shortcuts when they aren't looking!

Until it has that or built in addblock and vimperator, no chrome here.

So run the dev channel. It has extensions today. Yes, including ad blockers. Dev channel is actually perfectly usable if you don't mind the occasional disembodied head taking the place of a button. Dev channel Chrome has been my primary browser for over a year now.

AdSweep

Use adsweep in chrome... no ads:

http://adsweep.org/

There's AdSweep for chromium (it doesn't work on stable chrome afaik) http://adsweep.org/

Chrome supports user scripts, and scripts for all of those things already exist. Check out http://www.adsweep.org/ for one. And it is still "just another browser" like Fx, Opera, IE, etc.

* For ctrl+click it is ctrl+shift+click in opera. I also had problems with ctrl+click habit. Now I got used to it.

* for add blocking I use Addsweep. It works nicely.
The only feature I am missing is tree style tab. Other than that I am happy with opera. No more memory hogging.

There are ad blockers for Chrome: http://www.adsweep.org/

There is an adblock alternative for Chrome though - http://www.adsweep.org/

I'm using it now - it's not quite as good as adblock, but it's pretty effective. If you want to use the new Chrome Beta, you can use the new extension framework. If you want to stick to the stable chrome distribution, you can use the user script version.

I've been happy enough with it that I've switched from Firefox to Chrome as my primary browser.

The thing I miss most about adblock was giving me the option to selectively allow certain sites to serve me ads. Some sites I visit serve non-intrusive ads, and I'd like them to be able to make a little money off of my clicks.

It comes nowhere near AdblockPlus. I don't use Iron extensively but I doubt that this catches many ads. It's just a simple list of strings (not even regexes) that are matched against URLs. No DOM selectors (let alone a GUI for them), no "hide this object/image/iframe", no Flash/Java blocking, no whitelist, no interactivity, no subscription mechanism.

I've also found Adsweep, but it's abandonware and it doesn't install on my Chromium 3.

Chrome does have an adblock like software. Adsweep

Yes, they're all still very rough around the edges, but that's what I'd expect from an extension system in development. Of course, their existence isn't enough to stop people from all kinds of speculative bullshit about Google's plans and motives, but hey, being a geek is all about ego-driven opinion and nada about facts, it seems.

You can also filter them basically the same way AdBlock does... Opera has the "Blocked Content" (edit manually, or enter the "blocking" mode and just start clicking on stuff) which will do the whole .com/ads/* sort of blocking, you could even download, or use the your existing Adblock list (patterns.ini) with a bit of parsing/editing and using it for Opera (urlfilter.ini), and CSS and JS for more complex blocking

http://www.adsweep.org/
http://userstyles.org/styles/299

etc... quite a bit more manual, but it's not something you have to do very often, however it's essentially the same thing.

If Opera had equivalents of [...] Flashblock, and Adblock... I would switch.

You may want to check out http://www.adsweep.org/ and http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46673.

AdSweep works really well in Opera, though it can be a bit overzealous at times. However, the builds are weekly and refined more and more as time goes on.

The dev branch of chrome has initial support for extensions, and an ad blocker is already available for it.

http://www.adsweep.org/

Go check out AdSweep. It works just fine in Chrome. Maybe it's not AdBlock plus, but it works in Chrome without much too fuss.
http://www.adsweep.org/

I use this:

Adsweep

and it works pretty well. It doesn't get rid of quite as many ads as Adblock, but it blocks enough of them that it allowed me to switch to using Chrome full time.

Way ahead of you. http://adsweep.org/

I guess I'm ahead of everyone. ;-)

Privoxy blocked http://adsweep.org/.
See why or go there anyway.

Way ahead of you. http://adsweep.org/

I guess I'm ahead of everyone. ;-)

Privoxy blocked http://adsweep.org/.
See why or go there anyway.

Chrome will have proper extensions in the next 1-2 months. (They already work in the bleeding-edge dev version.) Adblocking extensions already exist (like AdSweep), but it'll take at least half a year to have the comfort and functionality that Adblock for Firefox has (extra blacklisting/whitelisting without editing arcane JavaScript files, easy installation, easy updates, choice of filter lists...).

Way ahead of you.

http://adsweep.org/

I've been using Adsweep for Opera, but it can also work with Chrome. Works pretty well, but I've ran across a couple pages that it's been too zealous on.

There is actually something handy called AdSweep that works with Chrome, but it's not regex based like Adblockplus so it seems to only work on sites that are built into it. It's better than nothing, I guess, but there are still about 300 other things that Firefox does for me that Chrome is far from doing, and a lot of them hinge on a good extension platform. I just don't think it can get better than XUL/js for extension writing.

Well I found out how to do it. I do not have ads anymore in chrome... Go here and follow instructions : http://www.adsweep.org/ Basically, since Chrome now support Greasemonkey scripts, you just have to have a good ad blocking script and adsweep is one. I wonder what will be the future extension mecanism of Chrome but with Greasemonkey, there is something very usefull and integrated in the web pages we use. So this is definitely interesting.

Oh, and a user script which blocks ads and works with Google Chrome can be found here:

http://www.adsweep.org/

I personally don't use it, but it claims to work with Chrome. I am sure there are others. Just look for greasemonkey ad-blocking scripts and try them out. With Chrome, after installing a new user script, just refresh the tab you're interested in and it should take effect immediately. If it doesn't work or you don't like it, either delete the script or move it into another path. I just create a folder under the User Scripts folder called "deactivated" and dump bad scripts in there, in case I feel like tweaking it later to get it to work better.