Adblock Plus

calande wrote:This addon works fine in Chrome, albeit still under development: http://www.adsweep.org

This code is pretty retarded...

lol @ using a linked list and a switch statement as a hash table... also at not setting !important in css.

fanboy wrote:Looks like someone has ported my list to the chrome fork iron,

http://himself.wordpress.com/2008/10/12 ... -built-in/

Iron is the best of the Chromium breeds.

adsweeper is lame

Too bad adblock format in Iron is slightly broken... maybe the pros here will post some pointers in the Iron forum:

http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=181

Wisdom Fluxion wrote:adsweeper is lame

Why? Doesn't it work?

Wisdom Fluxion wrote: Too bad adblock format in Iron is slightly broken... maybe the pros here will post some pointers in the Iron forum:

http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=181

ofcourse it is, it doesn't support wildcards.. which sucks.

Pistachio wrote:I will keep using FireFox until someone takes a closer look at Chrome.

I don't trust google anymore after seeing how much data they collect on us from watching youtube video.

The only thing left for google to do now is add everyone's data to street view, that way anyone can see where you live and what you do on the net lol.

they have already done this in google earth 5.0

I read the current development version of Google Chrome has implemented add-on system. Did anybody have a look into that yet? Is it possible to make Adblock Plus for Chrome with it?

According to what I read, their "add-on system" works mostly like GreaseMonkey. No, you cannot have a real ad blocking solution with that.

Is this ever planned for ad block plus?

I enjoy chrome so much more than Firefox, but I'd never leave it w/o Adblock plus, and I don't even do half the stuff it can do!

compuchef2k wrote:Is this ever planned for ad block plus?

The short answer: no
The long answer: please read this thread

One of the ad blocking routines I prsonally use is hostsfile.mine.nu it's essentially a software free way to block tons of ad's. And the best part is... it's just a text file!

Hope this helps someone!

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biniar wrote:And the best part is... it's just a text file!

Caveat: A text file which can be potentially malicious.

I never recommend using host files made by people you don't know or trust. The thing is, host files has the potential to redirect you from good websites to malicious websites...

Adblock Plus Fan wrote:

biniar wrote:And the best part is... it's just a text file!

Caveat: A text file which can be potentially malicious.

I never recommend using host files made by people you don't know or trust. The thing is, host files has the potential to redirect you from good websites to malicious websites...

It's a text file used for the Windows OS, it's safe!

If you also wanted additional security, you can set it to "read-only" so no programs can manipulate this file.

And without having to run any additional add-on's or extensions it saves you ram!

Downside of host files is dealing with false positives and no ability to whitelist (which is major)

fanboy wrote:Downside of host files is dealing with false positives and no ability to whitelist (which is major)

hater.

biniar wrote:It's a text file used for the Windows OS, it's safe!

Please read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file ... edirection. It doesn't matter whether programs can manipulate it, you allow hostfile.mine.nu to define the contents of this file.

The other problem with hosts files: you can only list exact host names. E.g. if you have to handle foo1.example.com, foo2.example.com, foo3.example.com you have to list each of them individually. And if the advertisers decide to add foo4.example.com then you will have to add it to the list - no way do handle an entire domain.