What is your personal point of view here and best solution to keep your surfing as adfree as can be? Reek anti adblock kliller works for me via Tampermonkey in the browser. Any other tips?
I’ve used uBlock some months ago. AdBlockPlus has the hability to customize/block ads in a particular site (right click the ad/photo and block it). Had uBlock implement this feature?
I’ve also used hosts manager, but in Windows 10, hosts file has a lot of difficulty to be managed.
Also, lots of sites stop to be loading and the hosts file is not right at our hands to manage…
I have never has an issue with AdBlockPlus, even with their acceptable ads policy thing as it isn’t forced on the user and they can uncheck that option.
It does its job just fine for me very rare that I see an add, other than those sites that I have allowed.
I also use NoScript, which could have an impact on ads.
I also use RequestPolicy and this I believe has a greater effect on ads as it blocks 3rd party sites (unless you have allowed them), given that most ads are going to be coming from 3rd party sites (the ad servers).
That and a couple of other reasons and recent developments makes why polonus for instance does not take part in facebook.
I wonder whether facebook is capable of a quaranteeing that any of these ads won’t be malicious ads.
This is the main reason for smart users to block ads -infectious malicious ads or fraudulous ads.
All a bad development as also is the recent facebook censorship policy of what they consider to be politically correct content or not.
Again more and more it is or will be forces outside the user that will decide on what a browser has, should have or has not, a
nd that is a development we do not have to be cheerful of. Apparently very slowly the clamps are coming down upon the “free” Interwebs.
I haven’t signed up to any social networking service facebook or otherwise, I have never trusted them, I can’t see my changing this avoidance of social networking site any time soon.
For me any site that is actively trying to block the blockers, no problem they have succeeded, in driving me away. So they lost any ad revenue anyway.
It is a great comfort to me, that so many users, like you for instance here, do feel like little old me.
A pity such voices are so often ignored. One should make the Interwebs a pleasant place to be again!
Not to mention all web pages load much faster than without an ad-blocker. Opera come with a native ad-blocker built-in: http://www.opera.com (Stable OEM build only)
True, you did not see any yet, it is just that they plan to launch such ads that cannot be blocked by adblockers.
@mchain. In our country 25% users use adblckers, in Germany an even larger percentage. The bulk of people on the Internet are un- or less educated and never will use ad- or scriptblockers. Many in the States think IE or edge is a synonym for going to the Interwebs. They do not need MS to warn them against the use of Chrome or Firefox. These guys and gals make that the Farcebook circus can go uninterrupted.
That is why it is so hard to get any change and some opposition to those that earn miliions and milions from using users every data as a product (all data from two thirds of the world population) sold to the highest bidder, and then like that carterpillar that is never satisfied, these Big Firms long for ever more money through additional ad-income streams. We are just a means to an end.
These big firms are not only into a protectionistic monopolistic form of neo-slavery, but also stopshort all forms of innovation and competition. Alas, not the best party for a pleasant experience out on the Interwebs. We are out on our own and have to fence for ourselves, dear Mchain. Adblocking may threaten free Internet in the long run, it also drains your browser with all the code that is being used in this next Adblockers War set-out! If self-regulation worked and a malad-free advertisment experience could be guaranteed I would shove my adblocker aside and not use it any longer. But the adlaunchers cannot and they won’t guarantee that period, so my visors stay down.
But such an arms-race is not doing us endusers any good. It could be bad for the availability of free content. It certainly means a lot of overhead on the poor browser-cycles and it seems already ABP takes quite some time to do the job. Like the English proverb says: “It is an ill wind that blows no-one any good”.
The adblocker war has broken out with circumvention and retalliation from both sides.
What actually is farcebook’s role here?
Their main pay model is data mining not ad-launching.
Are they working as a test-bed for the big p(l)ayers to be on ABP’s whitelist: Google, Bing, etc.?
Time will tell,
I’ve no interest in what Facebook is doing with advertising as I have no account. Sites that object to use of an ad-blocker and post a note asking me to turn it off are a little less trustworthy imo.
