Adblock Plus blocks "unblockable" ads on Facebook

Just as we suspected it didn't take long for things to escalate in response to Facebook's adblocker ads override that wants to show you ads even if you use a adblocker. Adblock Plus has already updated its filters to block Facebook's new ads... and Facebook has already altered them to show it again.

Adblocker blocks Wired's adblocker blocker

We all knew this day would come: the fight between sites wanting to force ads upon their visitors is escalating to absurd proportions.

Blocking adblocker users may be illegal in Europe

The war between content providers wishing to push as many ads as possible and users using adblockers will be long and hard. But in Europe, there's a subtle twist that may add fuel to the fire, as it's seemingly illegal for sites to block users using adblockers.

AdBlock Browser available on iOS

After launching as beta for Android, the Adblock Browser is finally available for iOS as well - though it comes at a time when we're about to get iOS9, which will provide ways to attack adblocking plugins to Safari.

How to Fix Chrome Sluggish Performance

I have already said previsouly, I was quite disappointed with the performance of the latest Chrome versions.

Google announced an ever faster and better browser, but my experience with it was getting worser and worser.

As I complained to a couple of friends, I soon discovered they were not experiencing the same problems. Whenever I was opening a new page in a new tab, all the other tabs slowed to a crawl. I couldn't even scroll the new page as it was loading - making me believe we were back in the "dark ages" where browsers needed to completely render the page before allowing interaction.
My Chrome was slow and unusable whenever a page was loading.

I couldn't take it anymore, and so I started looking for what could be causing it...

I started by disabling all the extensions I had installed, and immediately Chrome was as snappy as ever!
Now, the real detective work could begin... I enabled each extension, one at a time, by itself... until I finally caught the one causing the weird delays: it was AdBlock!

An extension I so fondly appreciate was the one giving so much headaches!
After browing for a while I came across a recomendation to try out AdBlock Plus instead, and indeed it worked as just well as AdBlock... but without any page-loading delays.

If you're experiencing erratic delays in Chrome and you're using AdBlock, be sure to try this one instead... as you'll probably find your browser to be a lot faster than you're used to!

AdBlock Anti-Malware

Indispensable for millions, hated by others, the browser extension AdBlocker has saved countless browsers from annoying ads.
But, on the other hand, it also keeps you from supporting your favorites sites by "watching" their ads.

The truth is, even if you opt to choose seeing those ads, AdBlocker can still be of great help blocking malicious content.

You just need to subscribe to this malware list (it's on the bottom of adblocker's official page), and you can safely navigate around the web.

If you're using Firefox be sure to use Ad Block Plus, on Chrome you just need to go to "manage extensions" (right click on the extensions area) and add the same link manually to the AdBlock list.

You can even find a list to block the popular (but annoying) rickrolls! :)