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How many ads has Adblock Plus blocked for you

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March 25, 2019, 08:50 PM
mjlennon
How many ads has Adblock Plus blocked for you
Some time back, some folks here recommended Adblock Plus. It's been a godsend, the internet has since been readable. For those of you that never leave here, it's a wasteland out there. <img src="https://sigforum.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif" alt="Wink" width="15" height="15"><!--graemlin:;)-->Just click the little stop sign icon in upper right corner, answer the poll below with how many total ads it's blocked since installed.None, I don't need no stinkin adblocker.1-100 I never leave Sigforum101-10k I mainly use computer for work10k - 100k I find it helps100k - 500k I'm a moderate net surfer. Keeps the screen clutter free most of the timeOver 500k I surf all day and don't pay for porn!
March 25, 2019, 08:54 PM
qxsoup
2,762,206 for me.


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March 25, 2019, 08:59 PM
tatortodd
I switched to uBlock Origin and it's over 1.25 million



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March 25, 2019, 09:00 PM
Hobbs
Used to run Adblock Plus and it was great. Been a while, so forgot exactly why I switched, but guess I found uBlock Origin 1.18.6 along with Disconnect 5.18.21 to work best for me in Firefox.
March 25, 2019, 09:02 PM
bobtheelf
I use uBlock Origin, and since installed (quite some time ago) I'm up to 3.9 million things blocked.
March 25, 2019, 10:25 PM
Pipe Smoker
How many ads would Adblock block
If Adblock could block ads?



Serious about crackers.
March 25, 2019, 10:30 PM
Mr.Wonderful
3,181,549 Been using it for a while.



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March 25, 2019, 10:50 PM
zoom6zoom
PiHole means my Adblocker doesn't have as much to do anymore. It also blocks most of those "analytic" type requests, too.
Over 24 hours:





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March 26, 2019, 06:12 AM
V-Tail
102,024



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March 26, 2019, 07:59 AM
Eponym
463,362 in total (over approximately 1 year)
March 26, 2019, 10:47 AM
P250UA5
quote:
Originally posted by tatortodd:
I switched to uBlock Origin and it's over 1.25 million


Switched as well when ABP was severely hindering Chrome performance.

1/2 mil for ublock for me & 1 'Ad' here on SF (avatar maybe?).




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March 26, 2019, 10:49 AM
HRK
Adblock a little over 30K
Ublock 1,058,784
March 26, 2019, 10:52 AM
BBMW
A little under 2.5 million.

The need to come up with a stealth ad blocker, so the website trying to post the ad doesn't know it's being blocked.
March 26, 2019, 11:20 AM
Skins2881
How do you tell?



Jesse

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March 26, 2019, 11:46 AM
Rinehart
1,354,654 for me.
March 26, 2019, 11:49 AM
tatortodd
quote:
Originally posted by Skins2881:
How do you tell?
1. Place left thumb in right ear
2. Stand on right foot
3. Extend left leg rearward to 45 degree angle
4. Curse TatorTodd for steps 1 to 3 Big Grin
5. Grasp mouse with right hand
6. Right click on Adblock or uBlock and select info, statistics, or similar word. It was the last menu item in uBlock.



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March 26, 2019, 12:22 PM
Skins2881
Of course I had already tried steps 1-3 and step 6 gives me - Check for updates, settings (nothing in there), Disable for SF, Disable for everywhere.

Doesn't even show up searching drives with cortana or whatever they changed the search function to.

Program is AdBlockPlus. It's an add-on to IE for me as far as I can tell, not a program?



Jesse

Sic Semper Tyrannis
March 26, 2019, 03:46 PM
fiasconva
I've had it for a long time so it's 1,510,993. Seems like it's doing it's job.



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March 26, 2019, 04:21 PM
rh
2,436,315 with uBlock Origin, and that's just with this Macbook Pro. Considering that I use 3 MBPs and a Mac Mini, the figure would come to around 10 million in total.
March 26, 2019, 08:59 PM
Shotgun Zeke
357,220 in total Smile




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