Where have I been?

4 years ago

I've just discovered Adblock plus and am enjoying the benefits. Before, my FB newsfeed would be full of all sorts of ads, mainly alcohol products! Maybe they're trying to tell me I need to start drinking. Anyway, since downloading Adblock, it's been a pleasure to scroll through my groups on FB Now to see if it works on other websites.

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Toronto Veterinarian

4 years ago

I've used different ad-blockers over the years, as their utility changes with the technology. Yup, currently have AdBlock Plus on Firefox; I will occasionally turn it off for some pages of small newspapers if they won't work with the blocker, because I know really need the revenue; if bigger companies want me to turn off my ad blocker, I just go somewhere else.....there are few sites so important to me that I can't get the info somewhere else. I still get some ads that it doesn't block, but that's OK - nothing's perfect.

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maire_cate
4 years ago
I'm not on Facebook but i have Adblock Plus and it works great.
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sushipup2
4 years ago
Yes, AdBlock Plus (and the Easy List) are wonderful.
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I'd say more novella - not that long at all! I've mostly been a lurker the last couple of years, but have always enjoyed your wit, and have missed your posts. I've followed along with the snippets you've provided about your situation, and send you the biggest congrats on finally being FREE of that [insert acronym you usually use but I can't remember....lol]. Welcome back!
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Ad blockers sometimes can interfere with normal, non - ad parts of websites and lead to erratic behavior. I took off the ones I used to use.
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I've used Adblock Plus for years with no problems. It's great.
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Elmer J Fudd
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The obvious explanation is that you don't regularly visit the websites I had trouble with. One you likely don't use is the one for my firm's intranet, which has very high-level security using a variety of techniques. There were a fair number of other sites I had trouble with too.

It was too much of a hassle to keep just one non-preferred browser without an adblocker to switch to and to remember which could be used where, so the easiest thing (for me) was to remove them completely. Honestly, it's easy enough to ignore ads. If you ever regularly read a newspaper, or if you still do, it's the same technique - ignore what's in view that doesn't interest you.
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jane__ny
4 years ago
I have used Firefox and Adblock for many years. Looking at Gardenweb there is nothing except the posts. It is the best, most reliable ad blocker I've ever used. I used it for years on my business machine without a problem at all.

It is great, I use the free version without a problem.

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arkansas girl
4 years ago
We use Adblockplus. I've had it on my computers for many years. When I first got this new laptop, we had not yet installed Adblock and what a pain it was! I have only experienced a couple of problems in all the years I have used it. It's really simple to turn it off in that odd chance something doesn't like adblock on their website.
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Lars
4 years ago
I use uBlock Origin on Firefox on my laptop. I don't have an ad blocker on Chrome, which is what I use for the rare times I visit FB. Since I so rarely use FB, I haven't noticed problems with ads there. What I do not like is sites asking me to log in using FB, and so I never log in to FB on Firefox.
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Jasdip
4 years ago
Lars, I've recently just heard about uBlock Origin. It doesn't take as many resources as ADP so won't slow down your computer. I haven't looked into it in detail though.

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Jasdip, I use them both, I am using FF browser.
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I've used AdBlock Plus and Easylist on Firefox for many years and Chrome since it was available. I have no problem with it slowing down my computer. I think my computer is probably faster because it doesn't have to load all those irritating ads.
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