Bluhell FW 2.0 - new adblock/privacy extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bluhell-firewall/?src=search

 

It works well, there are a few things it screws up, but that's okay.

 

On paper it sounds efficient and should work quite well. In my own personal practice, it came up far short. It works about the same as ABP from what I can tell, which means requests are still being allowed, even if you don't see the ads on the screen. It also showed quite a large amount of ads even then. Easylist by itself isn't enough to begin with. Again, great idea but it just doesn't cut it in my experience.

 

My ABP is constantly complaining about all the request blocking making it tired. What's the problem with your ABP? Browser? OS?

Can you provide specifics for a case where you've confirmed (through observing network traffic) it isn't blocking a request that it should be (one for which a block rule with no exception currently exists)?

Based on a quick peek, I would say that BlueHell does have the ability to block requests. I don't feel like walking through the code to check the logic though. So for this, too, it would probably be better to talk specifics (after checking its built-in rules and network traffic).

 

That's wrong. Most ads are not downloaded by ABP. Exceptions are ads embedded as text in websites - for those cases element hiding rules are used.

 

Blocks lots more than ABP, stops redirects much better, but does alter some sites more than I'd like.

 

How is this possible when those rules used by Bluehell are "auto-generated from Easylist"?

I had tried a previous version, and it blocked definitely less than ABP.

 

Try both on CNET.com, you can see the difference bigtime. Then log in and out of Hotmail - with AB/AB+ you will get redirected to MSN.com. with Bluhell, no redirect, just a not logged in screen. This using Firefox.

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bluhell-firewall/

Also, Bluhell has some sort of webfilter protection:

Code:

resource://bluhellfirewall/blocked.xhtml?t=1cbd32fc-657c-43bb-aa17-0ff70c9734a6&h=ZHcuY2JzaS5jb20=&u=aHR0cDovL2R3LmNic2kuY29tL3JlZGlyP2VkSWQ9MyZwaWQ9MTM0ODY5NDUmbWZnSWQ9NjI3OTQ5MSZtZXJJZD02Mjc5NDkxJmx0eXBlPWRsX2VsaXRlX2dlbiZsb3A9bGlua3RpdGxlJm9JZD0zMTUwLTE4NTEwXzQtMCZvbnRJZD0xODUxMF80JnR0YWc9bHN0LTMmZGVzdFVybD1odHRwJTNBJTJGJTJGZG93bmxvYWQuY25ldC5jb20lMkZEZWZlbmRlci1Qcm8tQW50aXZpcnVzLWFuZC1PbmxpbmUtU2VjdXJpdHklMkYzMDAwLTIwMjNfNC03NjA0NzU2OS5odG1sJm9pZD0zMTUwLTE4NTEwXzQtMCZzaXRlSWQ9NCZwZ3VpZD1lOGU4MTJmMWY1Y2MxZDNmYTBiMzhjMTQ=