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Re:Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think) by m000z0rz on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:36PM (#16998082)
Am I reading this right, that Adblock considers chum boxes acceptable ads? I never really considered it; I have AdBlock Plus installed and have seen way too many of those. Does uBlock Origin block them?
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Re:Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think) by lorenzhs on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:46PM (#16998175)
Yes it does. I would recommend ublock origin over Adblock Plus any day. That said, you could also disable “acceptable ads” to get rid of these with Adblock Plus.
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Re:Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think) by tgsovlerkhgsel on Saturday May 05, 2018 @07:52AM (#17001432)
Yes, and it uses less memory.

I intentionally kept the "Acceptable Ads" feature on for a long time because I am willing to support publishers (just not willing to manually sort the good from the bad), but since they decided that Taboola is a-ok, I turned it off, and at that point, there was no reason to use ABP vs. uBlock.

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