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Do you guys even know of Adblock Plus? (lemdro.id)

submitted 1 year ago by Im28xwa@lemdro.id to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I literally haven't seen anyone even mention it anywhere on the internet as if it never existed, when it comes to Ad blockers I always see uBO recommended with absolutely no mention whatsoever of ABP why? What makes it better than ABP? What happened to it? or maybe I'm wrong and ABP is not as well known as I think it is.

I have been using ABP for many years until someday don't remember when I switched to uBO because I read that it is "the best ad blocker".

I maybe need a history lesson as everything on the matter seems so vague to me and the whole situation is super weird

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[–] lemmyuser30@lemmy.ml 88 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes we know of it. That's why we actively avoid it. It doesn't take many searches to figure out its downfalls. AdBlock, AdBlock Plus, and the non Origin uBlock are all owned by the same company and they allow corporations to pay to let ads through.

[–] SyJ@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

It was recommended until they changed their business model to charging advertisers to be allowed through the blocking because they were "the good type of advert"

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

UBO > AdBlock

[–] Im28xwa@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

I agree

[–] drwho 9 points 1 year ago

Other folks who've commented on Adblock Plus have hit the important stuff. I just want to follow up with the comment that it also tends to bog down the browser after a certain point; browsing just got painfully slow on Firefox with it. I didn't bother troubleshooting it because that was around the same time they started allowing ads, so I bailed and didn't look back.

[–] STUPIDVIPGUY@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I used to use it, but switched away to uBo because abp didn't work properly

[–] lemmy@lemmy.stonansh.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use blokada

[–] Im28xwa@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

On PC?! Is it that good?

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