Re:An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking)
by kodablah on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @04:46AM
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> 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.
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.