Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus?

Re:Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus? by radley on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @01:31PM (#8103510)

AdBlock Plus sold out. Google's Sponsored features continue to be automatically white-listed as part of that deal, even when "acceptable ads" is not selected. You can't block them using Element Hiding Helper.

AdBlock Edge is the only true ad blocker:

http://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1mcsko/adblock_edge...

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Re:Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus? by chmars on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @02:53PM (#8104181)

I use Adblock Plus based on EasyList and I do not get any ads from Google. But that might be my custom configuration …

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Re:Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus? by radley on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @02:55PM (#8104197)

Not ads - Sponsored listings. A good example is the YouTube video feed; the first video is usually a Sponsored video. I wouldn't care so much except they're usually link bait videos with hot girls or people getting hurt in "funny" ways. Don't want.

EasyList and other filter sets work on most AdBlock versions. I also use the social filters to speed up page load since most pages are waiting on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, etc auth & cookies before they can finish displaying.

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Re:Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus? by ben__p__w on Monday August 04, 2014 @04:59AM (#8130882)

If you're seeing ANY YouTube ads something's wrong. Report it on ABP's forum or issue tracker: https://adblockplus.org/forum/ https://issues.adblockplus.org/

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Re:Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus? by millzlane on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @02:05PM (#8103780)

I mentioned this on wladimirs blog a few hours ago and he's yet to approve my comment. I asked if he knew about it and what he though about it.

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Re:Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus? by a2tech on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @02:34PM (#8104023)

He approved it and wrote a snippy comment about how Adblock Edge is just stealing their work and introducing bugs.

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Re:Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus? by crystaln on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @01:12PM (#8109519)

> "even when "acceptable ads" is not selected. You can't block them using Element Hiding Helper."

Is this true? After disabling the non-obtrusive ads, I don't see any ads anywhere. Can you give an example of an ad bypassing this feature entirely?

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