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Offline polonus

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Re: Ad Blocker 8.0 in Firefox 35.0.1
« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2015, 12:45:32 AM »
Hi Gopher John,

Here you doubt the wetting of Google Chrome and protect the firefox AMO point of view, notwithstanding the fact there may be other reasons than plain security testing to propagate Wladimir Palant's ABP over uBlock. I also did not hear the firefox fanboys speak out on the hard-coded ad-launching that came to firefox via their ad-tiles (you can go back on ad-tiles via an earlier configuration but as per default you get this), not many users going to change the browser via about-config to change this hard-coded ads-feeding. I am not against this, but I do not like it when browser development is not open and upfront about these schemes. Sorry firefox is not the open development browser from their earlier Mozilla days anymore, but my idle hopes ended when the Palo-Alto developed flock browser went obsolete, the best browser with the best feel had suddenly gone forever.

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Re: Ad Blocker 8.0 in Firefox 35.0.1
« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2015, 01:00:02 AM »
FWIW, I've never had the ad page that is mentioned.  I disabled that when the version that introduced it was released.  I guess it's all in knowing how to use Firefox, or any other software.
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Re: Ad Blocker 8.0 in Firefox 35.0.1
« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2015, 01:39:25 PM »
Currently, I have zero issues with Adblocker, set with Default settings. I've seen Zip ads since I installed it (Unless disabled)
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Re: Ad Blocker 8.0 in Firefox 35.0.1
« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2015, 02:38:30 PM »
Gave ublock a try on FF 35.0.1, and I have to say it's really good, and makes browsing snappier. I read this post by ublock on how to reduce privacy exposure and it doesn't seem to break any sites.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Filter-lists:-gorhill

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