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Re:Adblock Plus gives Facebook users a way to block its exte... by gorhill on Thursday June 26, 2014 @11:23AM (#7950100)
Last week-end I introduced µBlock (or uBlock) [1] for users who do not like to deal with the more complicated HTTP Switchboard. It does rather well against other popular blockers [2], which shows that ABP does indeed block requests, not just hide HTML elements. Compare the numbers of domains reached with when no blocker is used.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#benchmarks

[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#benchmarks

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