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I recently switched from Adblock Plus to HTTP Switchboard[0]. I find it gives you much better control over what gets blocked, and it properly blocks what you ha

I recently switched from Adblock Plus to HTTP Switchboard[0]. I find it gives you much better control over what gets blocked, and it properly blocks what you have told it to, not just hide them. I have it set up in quite a restrictive way so by default a site level scope is created and only image/css is allowed. It means I have to take anywhere from a couple of seconds to a few minutes to enable things a site needs to function, but I much prefer that to having tracking cookies, social media buttons, obnoxious adverts etc. Also the Adblock site claims you can also block a few annoyances specific to Facebook[0]. Is that actually the case? I thought Adblock just used element hiding. [0] https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/ https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/ [1] https://facebook.adblockplus.me/en/ https://facebook.adblockplus.me/en/

mkesper 12y ago
Not (yet) available for Firefox, sorrily.
- Bassetts 12y ago
  That is true, and something I forgot to mention in my original comment. I do believe the author intends to eventually have it work on Firefox, but I doubt that will be any time soon due to the fact it currently relies heavily on the Chrome API.
Ardren 12y ago
Initial ad blocking extensions for Chrome used element hiding due to addon limitations in Chrome. But for at least the last few years Chrome allows extensions to block requests. I think Firefox has always been able to do this.
gorhill 12y ago
Last week-end I introduced µBlock (or uBlock) [1] for users who do not like to deal with the more complicated HTTP Switchboard. It does rather well against other popular blockers [2], which shows that ABP does indeed block requests, not just hide HTML elements. Compare the numbers of domains reached with when no blocker is used. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#benchmarks https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#benchmarks [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#benchmarks https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#benchmarks

mkesper 12y ago

Not (yet) available for Firefox, sorrily.

Bassetts 12y ago
That is true, and something I forgot to mention in my original comment. I do believe the author intends to eventually have it work on Firefox, but I doubt that will be any time soon due to the fact it currently relies heavily on the Chrome API.

Ardren 12y ago

Initial ad blocking extensions for Chrome used element hiding due to addon limitations in Chrome. But for at least the last few years Chrome allows extensions to block requests. I think Firefox has always been able to do this.

gorhill 12y ago

Last week-end I introduced µBlock (or uBlock) [1] for users who do not like to deal with the more complicated HTTP Switchboard. It does rather well against other popular blockers [2], which shows that ABP does indeed block requests, not just hide HTML elements. Compare the numbers of domains reached with when no blocker is used. [1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#benchmarks https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#benchmarks [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#benchmarks https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#benchmarks