Questions about blocking advertisements in browsers.
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firefox adblocker that downloads but doesn't display ads
I'm searching for an adblocker for firefox that doesn't prevent the ads from downloading but prevents them from being shown. This has the following two use cases:
I want to support an ad driven site ...
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Does adblock really slow down your surfing speed? [closed]
I installed adblock recently and i felt like it slowed down my internet speed. So I uninstalled it immediately and it was all better. It was quite a months back and now my tuneup utility software is ...
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How to Block this Ad with AdBlock on Google Chrome Mac?
When I go to this page, http://www.hkej.com/template/landing11/jsp/main.jsp, I get an ad which is like a "light box" and the rest of the page becomes greyed out. In case you cannot reproduce it, I ...
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trouble adding sub URLs / pages inside a domain to /etc/hosts file
I want the hosts file to block www.url.com/page without blocking www.url.com
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I've added 127.0.0.1 www.apple.com to my /etc/host file
When I do ping www.apple.com I get this ...
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Chrome extension that would remove some part of the HTML document based on comment? [duplicate]
I need to cleanup some forums and the normal AdBlock doesn't work because the only way to identify the section to be removed is to look inside the HTML and remove the part between the comments (this ...
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DD-WRT new router firmware block ad serving hostnames
I found an excellent link of hosts serving ads and tracking cookies. I'd like to run a DNS server on my (newly reflashed) router running the DD-WRT firmware, and re-route all connections to any of ...
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Use simple xpath with AdBlock Plus for hiding elements
Is there a way to block elements with their absolute /html/body/table/td[3]tr[2] or relative //div[@id="shit"]/table/tr[2] xpath or to use it as additional condition to prevert false positives?
ABP ...
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How to prevent my ISP from putting every website in a frame?
My ISP has a bad habit of putting every page I visit into an iframe so they can
overlay it with their commercials etc..
(I'm guessing they are using a transparent proxy to do it)
Is there an add-on ...
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How to block loading https server resource on http pages in Firefox?
I wish to block loading of https resources in Firefox on pages that are served via http protocol.
Think of these elements to be blocked/filtered:
img src="https://*"
script src="https://*"
iframe ...
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What exactly are the CURRENT differences between AdBlock and Ad Block Plus for Chrome? [closed]
As of January 2013, both are out of beta, and both block the download of ads, rather than just hiding them. So what are the exact differences between the two? How should one choose?
AB claims to ...
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Advertisements blocked on most websites in IE9
On most websites the advertisements are blocked with the message "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". How do I fix this so the advertisements are shown?
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How to block ads in win 8 metro apps (e.g., Bing ad) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there an OS wide manner for opting out of display advertisements on Windows 8?
If a child plays a game in windows 8, some games have ads from most likely Microsoft ad ...
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Does AdBlock Plus use internet bandwidth?
Lately I noticed that after installing the Chrome extension AdBlock Plus, my internet bandwidth was used more than ever before.
Does AdBlock Plus use your internet, anonymously? I'm a little ...
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show/hide specific scripts from browsers (adblock)
i'm using AdBlock Plus and Element Hiding Helper to show/hide dom element. But i don't understand how can i show/hide a specific javascript script from page.
For example look this page:
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How can I block ads for free in IE10 (both modern UI and desktop)?
I am looking for a free way to block ads for IE10. A way which works in both the Modern UI version as well as the desktop version.
I have found Simple Adblock but only the trial version is free.
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View created rule for AdBlock+ Element Hiding Helper in Chrome
How can I view the list rules that I have created for the AdBlock+ Element Hiding Helper extension in Chrome?
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Can one blacklist zedo (or other ad servers) in the browser?
I HATE those zedo popunder ads that show up all the time when I go to certain sites. Is there any way to tell my browser to ignore anything from zedo? Preferably without using adblock software, ...
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Adblock on Chrome not updating nor saving forced updated list
I have adblock on chrome and it wont save the updated list and reverts to the august 2012 as the latest after every restart of chrome, it is happening on both Windows and Ubuntu , any one else facing ...
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Adblock plus doesn't work in Waterfox
I'm trying to use Waterfox, a 64 bit version of FireFox. I installed Adblock plus and it's enabled but it doesn't do anything. The ads appear and when I right click on them there's no option to block ...
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Get blocklist from ghostery
I am using Luakit as browser, which does not have support for firefox plugins like ghostery. It does have an adblock plugin which can use a textfile with all the urls that needed to be blocked, like ...
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How can I block social share buttons in webpages [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to block annoying facebook and other social network widgets
A great many pages have these "Like", "Tweet", "G+1", "share" row of buttons all over the place and in ...
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Setting up ad blocking on the router?
Is it possible to block or remove ads (graphical as well as textual like Google text ads) on the level of the router? I have a Cisco Linksys WRT54GL with Tomato Firmware v1.28.1816.
Basically I want ...
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Proxy to simplify complex web pages
Web pages are becoming more and more bloated, so that the problem is not only the bandwidth needed to load them but also the processing power needed to render them. I currently use AdBlock with ...
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All computers on network get stuck waiting for some sites indefinetely
This happens across three computers, running windows 7 and Ubuntu, firefox, opera, and chrome (all latest versions). I am connected to the internet through a Verizon wireless usb modem.
When I try ...
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How to find out what did I block in Opera?
I blocked something with Opera's content blocker that I shouldn't have. The blocking rule I set now blocks some important part of a web page (probably a CSS file) and it messes up its entire layout. ...
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Lightweight ad-blocker for firefox [closed]
On a old machine (512 MB RAM) I am currently running ubuntu jaunty and firefox 3.0.15. I tried the ad blocker addon add block plus but it eats lots of RAM (>300 MB).
Is high memory load of this ...
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AdBlock Plus not blocking advertisements lately [closed]
I have been using the Google Crome extension named as "AdBlock Plus" from a really long time. Until recently I was not able see any advertisements on any sites, including this very site. But lately, I ...
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Firefox: Addon- Buttons don't appear in Browser
There are 2 user accounts on my computer. User Account #1 is Administrator, User Account #2 is an normal account.
Both Accounts use Firefox as Browser and almost the same add-ons.
Lately I wanted ...
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Adblock-like plugin for hiding social sites' widgets, buttons, etc
I love Adblock plugins, and install them on a variety of browsers. They hide or remove ads, which take out a lot of clutter from sites.
However, I was thinking, is there any Adblock-like plugin (the ...
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Possible to block elements WITHIN Flash?
I'm guessing this is pretty much impossible, but thought I'd ask.
I know you can block whole flash elements with things like AdBlock, but was wondering if there was a way you could block elements, ...
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How to disable Flash plugin on Firefox, but with a whitelist? I mean *really* disable it
The background
Ok, this is a toughie. I'm a Firefox user, and I don't like Flash ads. They slow down my netbook, they slow down my Macbook, they sometimes play sound or obscure part of the page, all ...
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Adblocking jQuery
As a privacy-concerned user, I try to make sure that Google, Facebook and the like do not get informed of whatever page I visit through web bug like Google Analytics and the Facebook "I like" button. ...
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ad blocking host file, shared to all computers on local network
I currently update my local hosts file with advertising server domain names and direct them to nowhere.
Well, almost nowhere. I point them to 127.0.0.1 and I don't have a web service running so it is ...
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Convert AdBlock Plus block list to some Opera's ad blocking mechanism/add-on format
I'm using a whole bunch of myself-written blocking rules for AdBlock Plus in Firefox (they are not overly complicated; new versions of ABP provide quite advanced syntax, but I'm not using it much).
I ...
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AdBlock rule for blocking facebook.com outside the facebook.com domain
from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3035418
So I wrote some filter rules in my filter file, than I uploaded it to my domain, it looks like this:
[Adblock Plus 1.1]
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Extension that blocks ads on Google Chrome
I'd like to be able to block ads from showing while I browse the Internet on Google Chrome. I've looked, but I'm always nervous about installing add-ons.
Is there an extension that does this?
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Quirk with blocking video ads in YouTube with Firefox and AdBlock Plus
I am an IE9 user and got tired of YouTube forcing me to wait 15 seconds to watch an ad before I could watch the video that I wanted.
So I installed ABP for Firefox and the ads went away! However, if ...
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Is there any way to prevent just popunder windows?
One of the greatest annoyances I experience almost daily while browsing the intertubes are popunder advertisment windows. Usually, they are triggered by clicking on the window somewhere, thus ...
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How to keep AdSense Ads with AdBlock for Chrome?
How can I stop AdBlock from removing AdSense? Important: AdSense is NOT the ads you get when you search on Google. AdSense ads are the ads you get on 3rd party websites who make money with it.
Edit: ...
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Adblock Plus on firefox and Chrome
I wonder if there is a way to make Adblock plus work under firefox just like it is working under Chrome. Particularly the way that I specify ad on the page in Chrome is perfect. I just have to roughly ...
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Block Adblock detectors?
I guess almost all of you know/use adblock, and some of you probably also know those pages that tell you to disable adblock before you can proceed to their page.
However there also seem to be sites ...
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Firefox AdBlock Plus
I have Adblock Plus , Firefox Addon installed with my Firefox ver. 3.6.17. In this, I don't see any setting wherein I can selectively add site urls/domains as exceptions to the Adblock filter.
e.g. ...
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Block ads in Google Chrome only while in Incognito mode
I've seen several ad blocking extensions on Google Chrome but I don't want to block ads normally. I only want to block ads while I'm browsing in incognito mode.
I don't see any way to limit ...
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How can I block this script manually?
I use wireshark to check network traffic made by firefox and discover some lines keep coming up every minutes, some of them are made by facebook, which is totally non-sense to me. I would like to ...
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Installing adblock for FF4 from file?
Just installed FF4, and I'm trying to install adblock, but due to network policies, I cannot install it from the web site.
I've tried saving the xbi file (adblock_plus-1.3.3-fn+fx+sm+tb.xpi), and ...
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How to make Google Search scriptless with NoScript/AdBlock?
How to configure AdBlock or NoScript to make Google Search scriptless, but not to break multitude of pages that use Google's scripts (like if I "forbid google.com" in NoScipt)
@related ...
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how to block pop ups in chrome
I am using Chrome on a Ubuntu system and using Chrome a website has been highly irritating
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How can I block ads in Internet Explorer?
I am looking for an ad blocker which works both in Internet Explorer 9 and all later versions. What options do I have?
I would prefer a solution that works without installing any 3rd party DLLs ...
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Why doesn't Chrome's AdBlock extension work as well as the one in Firefox? [closed]
I've tried both of the major AdBlock extensions in Chrome; AdBlock and Adblock Plus for Google Chrome™. In Firefox, AdBlock is 100% effective, in Chrome there are frequently unblocked ads. Also, ads ...
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don't load web site's image
There is a web site with an annoying image which I just don't want to see and which I don't want my colleagues to see. Is there a way to not load it? Maybe have an application to block it from ...
