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Re:Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by ... by hungryfoolish on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:30PM (#19040294)
>Advertisements appear by default, but if a given site annoys you enough, you can go into your ad blocker's preferences and add it to your blacklist, and then you'll never see any ads on that site again.

Thats literally what ABP has. Ads which have meet the acceptable ads criteria appear by default, and the rest are blocked by default. Users can however go and disable that setting so that all ads are hidden by default.

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Re:Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by ... by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:09PM (#19041656)
A built in whitelist ≠ a user created blacklist
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Re:Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by ... by hungryfoolish on Thursday January 31, 2019 @10:56AM (#19045618)
Easylist would be a user created blacklist, right? Very ad blocker I know of uses that.
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Re:Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by ... by Wowfunhappy on Thursday January 31, 2019 @01:34PM (#19047367)
I mean per site that displays ads, not the ads themselves.

Right now, most people I know who use adblockers will "whitelist" websites they want to support, and/or who display ads they find nonintrusive.

I really think the default should be switched, so websites can display ads by default but a user can whitelist domains they dislike. At minimum, it should be possible to switch to this functionality.

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