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Chrome and Adblock

ABP works like crap anyway. Here's a screenie from when I started Chromium. ABP is always enabled, yet there's an ad at the top of the page until refresh. That indicates it's merely hiding the ads, and not blocking them. Not only does it use bandwidth, it ruins the main reason I use a blocker, which is to prevent malware and tracking. Add to that the lack of customization, why bother? I can make Firefox look almost exactly like Chrome, but with Chrome I use it the way they tell me too :^S

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I find Adblock to perform better than ABP for Chrome but the latter still works fine.

If anything, that probably indicates an issue with the filters. Adblock extensions in Chrome do not merely hide ads and are as effective as ABP in Firefox, especially after the introduction of the WebRequest API.

Remember that Adblock Plus allows so called "acceptable ads" and this holds true for both the Chrome and Firefox versions
 
jkroeder said:
I find Adblock to perform better than ABP for Chrome but the latter still works fine.

If anything, that probably indicates an issue with the filters. Adblock extensions in Chrome do not merely hide ads and are as effective as ABP in Firefox, especially after the introduction of the WebRequest API.

Remember that Adblock Plus allows so called "acceptable ads" and this holds true for both the Chrome and Firefox versions
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I have it setup as close as I can to my Firefox setup with all the same lists. I've never gotten rogue ads using the Firefox version. The addons work differently, so there may be a technical reason I get ads like that, but I'm not convinced they aren't merely hiding them, or downloading and deleting them after download.
 
Major changes

  • Adblock Plus for Chrome is now officially out of beta, its functionality and stability are comparable to Adblock Plus for Firefox. The user interface is still lacking, we are working on that.
  • Some acceptable ads are now allowed by default (Adblock Plus for Firefox had this for almost a year already, easy to disable, see full explanation).
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https://adblockplus.org/releases/adblock-plus-13-for-google-chrome-released

Sounds like something you should ask the ABP developer then
 
compman25 said:
For Android, this is Software for Windows and it has not been removed from Chrome for windows.
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I'm just going with what the OP provided. I took an non-relevant OP, and made it relevant to Software For Windows. Aside from that, it points out the real reason for Chrome's existence on every platform. It's to maximize Google's intrusion into people's computers, and to maximize their ad revenue. I'm not sure why that would be considered a feature.
 
lxskllr said:
I'm just going with what the OP provided. I took an non-relevant OP, and made it relevant to Software For Windows. Aside from that, it points out the real reason for Chrome's existence on every platform. It's to maximize Google's intrusion into people's computers, and to maximize their ad revenue. I'm not sure why that would be considered a feature.
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compman25 said:
For Android, this is Software for Windows and it has not been removed from Chrome for windows.
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Oops! Sorry guys, I definitely meant to post this in the "Mobile Devices & Gadgets" section. This is for an Android device. I'm still using Chrome for Win8.
 
Odd, considering I have Adblock Plus on Chrome and it hasn't been yanked...plus it's still available in the Chrome Web Store...
 
I use ABP and Noscript in Firefox and never noticed any ads. The only ads I get are the ones that stream in Pandora. You can't stop those.
 
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