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Re:Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted by adPothier on Friday July 05, 2013 @02:27PM (#5996095)
Combined with AdBlock, I use Ghostery[1], which is a nice add-on (Chrome/FF/Safari/Opera/IE) : it blocks any javascript from ads networks, but also from analytics, trackers, socials plugins (and more) , and also cookies from the same trackers. Everything is configurable per-tracker and per-website.

It's quite a must-have if you don't want to be the product on the Internet. And a good failover over Ad-block.

[1]. http://www.ghostery.com/

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Re:Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted by guelo on Friday July 05, 2013 @08:47PM (#5997401)
The Ghostery extension tracks you and sells the data to ad companies, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5897682
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Re:Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted by StacyC on Friday July 05, 2013 @03:36PM (#5996406)
Agreed on Ghostery. I have been using it for quite a while and it seems to work well.
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