Posted on 12/20/2015 7:43:52 PM PST by Utilizer
Several years ago, we started to offer Acceptable Ads as a feature in Adblock Plus as a middle way between ad blocking users who opted out of traditional ad formats, while allowing publishers and content-creators to continue to monetize with unobtrusive ads. This first version allowed users to whitelist individual websites that they wanted to support. In 2011, we published a set of guidelines that our user community deemed “acceptable,†and these acceptable ads are shown by default to our users to allow a compromise between blocking all ads, or no ads at all. Since then, we have thought about Acceptable Ads a ton and collected feedback from multiple sources, but the aim has never changed: we are trying to safeguard the user experience of Adblock Plus by only allowing nonintrusive ad formats, while enabling content-creators and others to monetize.
Today, we are announcing updates to the Acceptable Ads criteria while keeping the core values. The idea is to make Acceptable Ads easier to understand, even if you don’t have a background in ads, while providing a perfect starting point for the Acceptable Ads Committee which will take over in 2016. Finally, transparency is critical for us so we are releasing more public information on how we monetize with Acceptable Ads.
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Agreed; I switched to UBlock Origin as well. Love it!
It's a firefox (how funny is it that it flags "firefox") thing (or whatever it depends on). You can double click on the word and choose Add to Dictionary.
I used Adblock plus for years but it got to where to many sites wouldn’t even load properly and videos on many sites refused to play. I uninstalled Ghostey, Adblock plus and Noscript. Now I get ads but also get pages again to load properly.
Maybe Ublock will be better.
No kidding .
WE are running iPads gen 1, and gen 2. With the proliferating of these video ads of late both iPads choke while trying to load some pages. Frustrating.
At least I think what's been happening the last 6-9 months.
All, please note there is a difference between Adblock and Adblock Plus.
Ping for later
Same here, it is a really nice extension. Saw an extensive ad block plugin review on Raymond.cc and switched...
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