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A valuable but missing features in Avast Browsers' Adblock and Video Downloader.

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The addition of such plugins like adblock and video downloader was a great idea! And i believe they could be even better.

First the Downloader. I believe this plugins' biggest potential is in converting video into music, so I used it this way. When I tried to download a song from YouTube it gave me only one option, which is 128k file. Now the problem lies in what type of file it is. It's ".m4a". What is ".m4a", it can't even be played by my players? Nor VLC, nor Winamp could play it. I believe that it would be awesome if you could download music file in ".mp3" or ".flac".

Now the adblock. After I changed to this browser, I loved the fact that it has adblock as a default plugin, however after some time I missed a feature I'm used to having from adblock plus.

Manual ad blocking. Where would it be need?
* There are some annoying websites that bypass adblock ad filters and throw an ad of your entire screen size. This feature would let you block these annoying
   bypassers manually.
* Some websites force you into using cookies the way they want without a chance of customization. That annoying bar at the bottom or top of your screen, that
   begs you to give all your personal data away, usually takes up close to 1/3rd of your screen, if you're widescreen user like me. Combining with huge text font
   in a website that makes it unbearable reading experience. By using manual blocking, user could bypass that "cookie beg bar" freeing up up to 1/3rd the
   screen.
* Some websites drop a massive overlay across your entire screen with a message "please register to our spam service, so you as one time visitor could read
   this article". Once again this could be avoided by manual block.

bob3160:

--- Quote from: liudvikast on July 19, 2018, 11:27:25 PM ---The addition of such plugins like adblock and video downloader was a great idea! And i believe they could be even better.

First the adblock. After I changed to this browser, I loved the fact that it has adblock as a default plugin, however after some time I missed a feature I'm used to having from adblock plus.

Manual ad blocking. Where would it be need?
* There are some annoying websites that bypass adblock ad filters and throw an ad of your entire screen size. This feature would let you block these annoying
   bypassers manually.
* Some websites force you into using cookies the way they want without a chance of customization. That annoying bar at the bottom or top of your screen, that
   begs you to give all your personal data away, usually takes up close to 1/3rd of your screen, if you're widescreen user like me. Combining with huge text font
   in a website that makes it unbearable reading experience. By using manual blocking, user could bypass that "cookie beg bar" freeing up up to 1/3rd the
   screen.
* Some websites drop a massive overlay across your entire screen with a message "please register to our spam service, so you as one time visitor could read
   this article". Once again this could be avoided by manual block.


Now enough about adblock. I believe this plugins biggest potential is in converting video into music, so I used it this way. When I tried to download a song from YouTube it gave me only one option, which is 128k file. Now the problem lies in what type of file it is. It's ".m4a". What is ".m4a", it can't even be played by my players? Nor VLC, nor Winamp could play it. I believe that it would be awesome if you could our music file in ".mp3" or ".flac".

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What browser are you talking about? Avast Secure Browser uses both an ad blocker and comes with a video (youtube) down loader.
https://www.avast.com/en-us/secure-browser

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--- Quote from: bob3160 on July 20, 2018, 12:08:15 AM ---What browser are you talking about?

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??? It's in the title.



--- Quote from: bob3160 on July 20, 2018, 12:08:15 AM ---Avast Secure Browser uses both an ad blocker and comes with a video (youtube) down loader.

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I know, I wrote about missing features and the issue with YouTube music downloader. I wrote in more detail above.

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