Adblock Plus now available for Chrome

Finally, Adblock Plus - originally developed as a Firefox extension and arguably the best and most flexible ad blocker available - has become available for Chromium-based browsers. We've discussed this for some time on the Google Chrome extensions thread

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=263095

yet I feel that it deserves its own thread: The current proliferation of increasingly sophisticated popups, sliders and other modern evils means we need to remain vigilant and apply novel filtering techniques. For example, getting rid of a single slider on economist.com requires blocking six different items:

http://media.economist.com/images/slider/*
http://media.economist.com/images/sliderce/mainbody.png
http://media.economist.com/images/sliderce/top_main.png
http://media.economist.com/images/sliderrow/down_arrow.gif
http://media.economist.com/images/sliderrow/mainbody.png
http://media.economist.com/images/sliderrow/top_main.png

So let's keep up with the Murdochs and Springers and discuss and share our findings here!

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb

 

I'l pass Chrome. Again.

 

Adblock Plus for Google Chrome is working very well. I have subscribed to EasyPrivacy + Easy List, AdBlockRules, Adversity (Adult, P2P, and Tracking) lists.

 

What happens if you just have:
http://media.economist.com/images/slide*
instead of the six above?

I'm asking because I can't see any slider on economist.com currently using Chrome or FF. Maybe, I have to undo a lot of "protections" scattered all over the place just to test this.

 

Code:

Originally Posted by [B]Wladimir Palant[/B]
I have to state first: Chrome’s  extension system [U]has severe limitations[/U],
so we [U]won’t be able to create[/U]  an [U]exact equivalent[/U] of [U]Adblock Plus for Firefox[/U].

Needless to comment on it...

 

Well, it appears to be working well for me anyway. I may miss the little devil for a variety of aesthetic reasons but that 'boring' ABP octagon has always been reassuring whether on SeaMonkey, Firefox, Iron or Chrome. If only Opera had an adblocker even halfway close to ABP!

It would be interesting if Chrome could develop a built-in adblocker 'Iron' style to work concomitantly with ABP. In fact, it's a shame that Fanboy's list has been discontinued as I could watch some Channel 4 (UK) programs without any commercial breaks with the extension adblocker (usually AdThwart) disabled, primarily as the flash wouldn't run with an extension adblocker enabled.

 

Well, I tried to see the slider again with Firefox and its ABP turned off. No luck. I guess it's a geo-locational thing? You guys in Europe are served the fancy stuff and those from "TWCs" are spared

 

...Since he obviously changed his mind!

http://adblockplus.org/blog/

 

Is the ABP of GC the as effective as the one of FF

 

No, since Chrome does not yet support various functions that allow the GC version to block requests entirely.

 

Another reason to use Ad Muncher

 

too bad its a subscription based product, if it was a one off purchase id probly buy admuncher

 

There is a lifetime license option; it's more expensive obviously but worth it in the long run. I'm one of the lucky ones who purchased before October 2006 when the only option was lifetime.

 

Probably not, but the good news is that Adblock Plus is there now for Chrome and I have no doubt it will improve further as we go along...

 

Just as I thought...

 

A flame war has broken out in the Chrome extensions pages for the "old" and the "new" blocker. Sensitive people, (such as Wilders moderators), may not want to go there. Pleas about letting the holidays spirit prevail are being ignored.

@Pinga, how you doin' with the Economist?

 

....Damn I miss all the fun! LOL

Happy holidays & a very Merry Montol to everyone.

 

Thanks for asking

Drinking at the Last Chance Saloon... just added

http://media.economist.com/images/sliderce/*
http://media.economist.com/images/sliderrow/*

 

OK, one thing I've noticed, no doubt someone who is a bit more 'up' on computers will be able to tell me about this, but I tend to surf the Net with the JS off in Chrome (utilising the whitelist) & I have noticed that if I open a page not on my whitelist I can see ads sometimes. As soon as I put the page on the whitelist & reload the ads disappear!

 

Yes that's because adblocking extensions for Chrome require javascript to be enabled.

 

OK

 

I don't get what's the fuss all about, apart from the icon issue (which doesn't affect me). In fact, I'm glad that Wladimir Palant is now onto the development of the add-on...

 

And now a "fork"?

It's genesis seems to lie in the exclusion of a particular filter list from the list of filters on offer.

 

ABP doesn;t quite work as effectively on chrome, for one thing you dont have "open blockable items" that you get in forefox that enables you to seleticely block certain items which the default patches do not work on.

 

I'm not sure that anyone claims that AdBlock Plus for Chrome is as effective as AdBlock Plus for Firefox. For one thing, Palant has only recently taken up the project. For another, Chrome gives far less API access to devs.