Chrome Ad Blockers can now block ads before the ad load

CiX · Jul 23, 2010

The problem is that Chrome’s extension APIs don’t provide any way of blocking a resource before it’s loaded. This means that all the ads on a page are downloaded and rendered, but are then hidden by AdBlock or similar extensions. For most purposes, this works, the ads are gone, but in certain cases you actually get to see the ads before they’re hidden. And the second benefit of using an ad blocker, a smaller memory footprint thanks to less resources being loaded, is gone.
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Chrome Ad Blockers can now block ads before the ad load

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