22nd November 2020, 04:15 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 4,891
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Originally Posted by mjmlabs
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Originally Posted by SmartAleq
AdBlock Plus has gone to the dark side and has agreements to allow SOME ads through--go with uBlock Origin, it's much closer to the real original thing and allows nothing.
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True; I use uBlock Origin myself ... along with Ghostery, Disconnect, Privacy Badger, real-time (paid) Malwarebytes, and HTTPS Everywhere. Overkill? Maybe. But I sometimes investigate some sketchy side alleys of the Intertubez. (I do keep a less-heavily-armored browser on hand for trusted sites with lots of third-party content, and/or sites that I actually want to support by clicking on a few of their ads; think Daily Beast or Alternet or Digby's Hullabaloo.) But anyway, I digress ... the philosophical choice AdBlock Plus has made, to allow vetted, "non-intrusive" ads through, in order to support content creators and promote the use of non-intrusive ads, isn't an unreasonable one per se, and if all online advertising went away, every site would become paywalled, and nobody wants that. And IIRC, there's a one-click setting in AdBlock's options to go back to blocking everything again, if that's what ya want. But this is a tangent better suited for its own thread, and Jackie should feel free to ignore it. 
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AdBlock does have the option to block "non-intrusive" ads (WTF? All ads are intrusive) and since I already had it, the easiest option for me was to simply check that box. But yes, uBlock Origin is probably a better option these days.
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