Topic: Adblock Plus censoring posts - page 4. (Read 5861 times)

Non-intrusive would be the way to go for theymos and advertisers.
https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9281#p55156

I knew this from the beginning of ghostery. I would not touch ghostery with a ten foot poll.

Please research before you use ghostery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#History_and_use

I am not. I was referring to a category of products writing “adblock” in lowercase. I recommend Ghostery over AdBlock and over AdBlock Plus and over any other adblock (that is over any software focused on blocking ads that are visible).


Social stuff is just one category of shitty spies. Ghostery blocks also ~300 different beacons (codes that are “quiet”, that is they don't display anything and their sole purpose is to track users: these are conversion pixels, audience segmentation pixels, etc), plus ~260 different analytics codes, etc. It also blocks ~200 social widgets (which seems to be much more than this short AdBlock social list) and ~700 advertising providers.

I don't claim that adblocks don't have their lists covering these categories. I just think that adblocks are more effective for things that are visible and Ghostery is more effective for things that are tracking you, regardless of their visual effects (or lack of them). I prefer “doesn't matter if it shines or whistles, if it's a 3rd party that is tracking anything, we block them” philosophy over “if it displays something like ads, we block it” because the former fits more into my privacy needs and I suspect the latter is focused more on things that are visible and doesn't block all these invisible data gathering trackers.

Ads like these on bitcointalk.org totally don't bother me at all, as opposed to all companies in the business of gathering, processing and selling as much data on people as they can.

Jeeez, I'm removing that crap from my browser then

You're confusing AdBlock with AdBlock Plus. AdBlock hasn't and isn't blocking the forum ads.


AdBlock does this as well if you add the following filter list:


Blocking all the social network spam that appears on some pages is the only reason I ever installed it.

I recommend using http://www.ghostery.com/ instead of adblock anyway. It blocks most of shitty 3rd party spying codes - that includes most ads but also Facebook, Twitter, Google and lot of other tracking codes from even more evil companies. It blocks most ads that adblock blocks, but is much, much better for your privacy. It also doesn't block any in-house ads like these on bitcointalk.org.

As for the ABP issue, I second the opinion that it is a side effect of anti-ABP code. I would remove this code and let ABP do their job the easy way. I also like the idea to logout everyone who was detected using adblock. That should keep number of lost ad displays reasonably low (limited to visitors using ABP and not logged in; and huge forums are hard to use without logging in).

Actually, ABP charges money to unblock ads. You have to be considered non intrusive AND pay em.

Do the advertisers pay premium for the anti-ABP code?

Yes lets censor everyone, I think theymos should let the ABP block the ads, and just let it be. Theymos is sitting on a lot of money for the forum I don't see the problem. Plus who cares if butterfly labs or ripples is a scam which both are not. So he lets false ads, why can't we have the power to block those?

https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14688

I would just logout everyone who was detected using adblock.
Try to use the forum while logged out if you prefer to keep ABP on

Yes, it is. You're the one who started the arms race with EasyList. If you removed your anti-ABP code, easylist maintainers wouldn't have to go through such extreme measures. This whole arms race is retarded, and you're turning it into a game of "why are you hitting yourself".

The Adblock Plus EasyList maintainers couldn't block the forum's ads, so they just blocked the links in the ads everywhere on the forum. So that's why you might see posts censored like this:




There's nothing I can change in the forum's HTML to stop this. This isn't a side-effect of my anti-ABP code. If you don't want posts censored, you need to disable ABP (or just these filters) on bitcointalk.org. You can complain about it here.