"Active only for... >a special site<"-Option

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Bishop

"Active only for... >a special site<"-Option

Post by Bishop »

Hi

a great work!

i have a little suggestion about a plus feature. ...making it works, that i only tell ad-blocker the sites, I WISH TO BLOCK, and not telling him all sites i DONT WANT TO BLOCK!

Taht would be quicker, as i dont have so much ad-filled sites i visit; but there are few sites, i visit very often, but they are full of elements i wish to block. (eg some forums with ads and big jpg pics).

So it would be nice, if i could arrange AD BLOCK in a way, that the loading of many regular sites, which arent with ads so far, is quicker, without i have to tell him, dont block. Eg, if you browse through some serious sites, they are often linked to other serious sites, which all have no ads!

My comp (+win 98) is slowly so i take care of performance.

p.s.: sorry for my english, i am from germany.

Greetings
Stefan
Druime

I agree

Post by Druime »

I fully agree to the above and was looking for the same option maybe as a different program/extension all together or as an option to the existing.

I understand that many sites make money from adds being displayed so I want to help support some of those sites as long as the adds are unobtrusive! So just blocking sites that i have problems with would be very good

Thanks
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Post by jamieplucinski »

This is already supported... install AdBlock Plus and *do not* subscribe to any lists... et voila AdBlock Plus will block nothing, then you just use the Element Hiding Helper to block specific advertisements on sites you want cleaning up.

Simple.
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Post by Dr. Evil »

jamieplucinski wrote:This is already supported... install AdBlock Plus and *do not* subscribe to any lists... et voila AdBlock Plus will block nothing, then you just use the Element Hiding Helper to block specific advertisements on sites you want cleaning up.
Using EHH won't make anything faster. You'd have to add normal filters to speed things up. And then it might become hard to block only the ads on this site if it uses some standard ad network.
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Post by jamieplucinski »

@Dr.Evil: The reason I said to use EHH was to give them the "only for this site" option they asked for, EHH by default includes the domain name for any rules it creates, so it wouldn't be a global block like they requested.

Plus by the sounds of things they want to still download the ads, but not show them, as misguided as it may sound, if they want to block adverts they can still find them in the "blockable items" window :)
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