Comments on: Privacy Solutions (Part 2): Adblock Plus

By: Nuts & Bolts: Everything You Wanted To Know About Cookies But Were Afraid To Ask

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:42:57 +0000

[...] they have no idea who you are. And as my colleagues Adam Thierer and Berin Szoka explained in their post on Adblock Plus, websites (especially smaller independent websites) depend on advertising as a source of revenue [...]

By: Google & Openness: Allows Adblocking Extensions in Chrome — Technology Liberation Front

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:35:50 +0000

[...] blinking, bouncing, strobing dancing ads really drive users nuts and make them turn to tools like AdBlock Plus and Flashblock—which is why ad networks like Google have policies that implement their own [...]

By: The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog

The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:38:18 +0000

Nanny State Says: "Shhhhh! That Commercial is Too Loud!"...

When the government tells someone to shut up, we call it censorship and the First Amendment requires the government to defend its regulation. But what if the government just says, "Shhhh... could you please turn that down?" Rep. Anna Eshoo's......

By: Nanny State Says: “Shhhhh! That Commercial is Too Loud!” — Technology Liberation Front

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:55:22 +0000

By: Privacy Solutions (Part 5): CCleaner | The Technology Liberation Front

Privacy Solutions (Part 5): CCleaner | The Technology Liberation Front — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:07:13 +0000

[...] a more effective alternative to government-mandated regulation of online privacy. [See entries 1, 2, 3, 4] In this installment, we will be exploring CCleaner, a free Windows-based tool created by [...]

By: Nuts & Bolts: Everything You Wanted To Know About Cookies But Were Afraid To Ask | The Technology Liberation Front

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:24:20 +0000

By: nulls101

nulls101 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:55:35 +0000

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By: Ryan Radia

Ryan Radia — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:58:57 +0000

This is very interesting, thanks Wladimir. Some of the issues with Filterset.G don't seem to exist for me (like slow browsing) but I will have to try a different set of filters.

By: Wladimir Palant

Wladimir Palant — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:27:54 +0000

Filterset.G is not recommended for Adblock Plus: http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_project#filterset.g

What you should look at if you are concerned about privacy, is ABP Tracking Filter (http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions). Also, current Adblock Plus development builds implement a $third-party option (http://adblockplus.org/blog/recognizing-third-p...) which gives you a way to block tracking servers in a generic way (also likely to cause collateral damage however so using it in its generic form is only something for the most paranoid).

By: Don Marti

Don Marti — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:58:01 +0000

Don't forget CustomizeGoogle. You can configure it to remove the Google tracking when you click through on a search result.

By: MikeRT

MikeRT — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:22:16 +0000

Well, when they get there way, and there's no advertising, they'll have to deal with the walled gardens like the online version of the Wallstreet Journal. Ironically, most of the "new media" will be the victims because they're the lightweight journals that have the weakest relationship with their readers when it comes to a willingness to buy access.

By: Adam Thierer

Adam Thierer — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:14:32 +0000

Mike, I am totally with you on that point, but many others disagree with us. There's just a certain crowd out there that find the whole idea of commercial advertising annoying or even offensive and don't really think about the trade-off of what they would be missing without those ads being present. There is no free lunch, after all.

By: MikeRT

MikeRT — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:57:23 +0000

Honestly, I just don't know what the big deal is with most people and ads. Maybe it's just the sites I go to, but I rarely see any ads that are ugly and out of place.

By: Adam Thierer

Adam Thierer — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:42:26 +0000

Thanks Ryan. I will check our Filterset.G

Also, Berin and I are planning to cover NoScript in a future entry.

By: Ryan Radia

Ryan Radia — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:19:21 +0000

Filterset.G (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filterset.G) makes AdBlock even more powerful. It really does a good job of getting rid of ads.

Another add-on that goes well with AdBlock is NoScript. At first, it's annoying to white-list every trusted site that uses a script, but blocking all scripts by default really does enhance security while browsing.