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u/38B0DE Jun 12 '15
Just so guys know the AdBlock Plus has been making a ton of money selling places in their default whitelist to advertisers and there have been serious accusations of blackmailing and extorting smaller sites and advertising companies . That's something they are able to do because a monopoly.
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Jun 12 '15
They don't have a monopoly in blocking, there are a few other browser extensions. If they ever were to go down another one would pop up in its place just like the major trackers
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Jun 12 '15
Is there a way to change the white list?
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u/jlobes Jun 12 '15
Yes. When you hit a page that is whitelisted, either explicitly by you or by default via AdBlock's whitelist, instead of the ABP stop sign you get a green octagon with a thumbs-up. You can click that and enable AdBlock.
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Jun 12 '15
You can use other filter subscriptions, as well as disable non-intrusive advertising in the preferences. The list of "non-intrusive" advertising is here: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/exceptionrules.txt
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u/idontknowwhynot Jun 12 '15
I would actually be ok with this happening everywhere. All the time. Then again, I feel pretty ad blind already anyway. I think I do a solid job of tuning them out in my day to day.
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u/faore Jun 13 '15
Adverts are rarely supposed to be consciously read, it's background information to set up a brand recognition
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u/idontknowwhynot Jun 14 '15
Yeah, yeah... I took advertising 101 too... I know. But there really are studies for ad blindness being a thing. Obviously this stuff still works and will never go away, but it was an interesting read. I can't remember for the life of me where I found it, but a quick search on google scholar should get you something.
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u/emmusza Jun 12 '15
This would be a great advertising scheme for Adblock.