Is AdBlock broken

andicole0 · 16 Feb 2015 at 17:58

Just noticed a whole load of ads in Chrome. A new version of AdBlock is running (from 12/2/15) but it seems to be ineffective.

Anyone else seeing this?

Andi.

Bursar · 16 Feb 2015 at 18:05

I'm running ABP, and there's an option for "Allow some non-intrusive advertising". Make sure that's unticked as some advertisers are paying ABP to get onto that list.

Orcvader · 16 Feb 2015 at 18:19

Perhaps give µBlock a try, it's pretty light and works just as well.

Have you checked if there might be some dodgy extensions or plugins?

Hxc · 16 Feb 2015 at 19:29

Seconding µBlock

Has made a massive, massive difference to Firefox and Chrome for me.

andicole0 · 16 Feb 2015 at 19:50

Cheers guys have switched to ABP for now, see how it goes.

Andi.

murah · 16 Feb 2015 at 20:41

microsoft, google and a host of other companies have paid Ad block plus to unblock some of their "non intrusive" adds it was recently reported in some techy news sites. The kicker is if you're using different filters then you should be fine, update and add a few lists (fanboy list / easylist)

TheVoice · 17 Feb 2015 at 00:15

Funnily enough, I had to help my Nan remove Adblock from Chrome earlier this evening and install Adblock Plus instead, because it was completely preventing Facebook from loading.

First time using Windows Remote Assistance too, worked rather well.

Orcvader · 17 Feb 2015 at 00:55

ABP is pretty heavy and you can feel its effects more on low end systems. µBlock on the other hand is considerably lighter and allows the borwser to load just as fast as if it didn't have an adblock installed. It uses the same filters as the other more common adblockers too. Link here on a comparison: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#performance

Still in beta but it seems to do as well as AB/ABP. Before that, I was a hardcore ABP user for years

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Gambisk · 17 Feb 2015 at 08:46

might give µBlock a shot, I've started to notice chrome slowing down quite a bit recently.

LoadsaMoney · 17 Feb 2015 at 12:53

Didn't know this was up for Firefox yet, so just disabled ABP and popped it on, seems fine

marc2003 · 17 Feb 2015 at 12:59

Orcvader said:
ABP is pretty heavy and you can feel its effects more on low end systems.

ABP does use a lot of ram but i can't say i've noticed any effect on low end systems. just to give you some idea of how low, i often browse the web with a thin client pc with the most awful VIA cpu inside. it's so weak i can't even play low res flash videos from bbc news or youtube (and it's not the internet, html5 video is fine).

i just tried ublock and it still uses a lot of ram but maybe a bit less than ABP. i'll certainly stick with it for a bit to see if it blocks all the ads on sites i usually frequent.

malachi · 17 Feb 2015 at 13:12

Thanks, I will give ublock a try. See if it works with 4OD.

zom247 · 17 Feb 2015 at 16:15

Am I blind? Can't find it as an add-on for Firefox. Search doesn't come up with µBlock.

Orcvader · 17 Feb 2015 at 17:14

zom247 said:
Am I blind? Can't find it as an add-on for Firefox. Search doesn't come up with µBlock.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock/

Although they do have a newer version here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases

As for performance it's more noticeable when loading up Firefox after you turn the PC on, and a little less noticeable on ad heavy sites. As for RAM usage you'll notice the difference more when you have loads of tabs open.

andicole0 · 17 Feb 2015 at 17:20

ABP seems to be a doing a much better job than AB so far.

Andi.

marc2003 · 17 Feb 2015 at 18:22

i think i'm going back to ABP from ublock. i use ABP to manually block some images and ublock appears to support this feature but you can see the image for a split second before it hides it. i'd rather take the hit of a bit more ram usage with ABP not to see that.

Chaos · 18 Feb 2015 at 15:29

I think most abp users have moved over to adblock edge which is a fork of abp wihout the acceptable ads feature.