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Re:An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking) by kodablah on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @09:23PM (#16012411)
I'm confused. You used an example of not realizing you were blocking ads from a site to support a less transparent blocking approach? Why can't you just take the list from this better-ads program and use it in your extension? (And if you can't, think about why you can't)

I can't figure out whether your problem is with the current crop of extensions or the filter lists. Regardless of which it is, I'm not sure your concerns will be alleviated by unnecessarily-built-in, likely non-extensible, likely non-customizable blocker using an opaque set of filters.

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Re:An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking) by on_and_off on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @02:56AM (#16013501)
Depends on how these filters are configured. Again, I just want something that blocks mischievous ads and lets everything else in.

I don't know whether Google will achieve this but I am willing to give it a try.

To be honest, I am disillusioned with the extensions I have tried that seem all lacking because they are only here to support a racket like business model where you pay to get whitelisted.

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Re:An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking) by kodablah on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @04:46AM (#16013844)
> Depends on how these filters are configured.

What I'm saying is you probably can't configure them to your liking. Otherwise, they'd just give us a filter list for our existing extensions. Do you support hidden lists over visible ones?

> To be honest, I am disillusioned with the extensions I have tried that seem all lacking because they are only here to support a racket like business model where you pay to get whitelisted.

The most popular among tech circles, uBlock Origin, does not suffer from this. I am disappointed that you only tried ones that are corruptible and then had those experiences lead you to look forward to a more opaque solution by an ad company. Yet I fear this is why Google will succeed.

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