If you are an Internet user, either looking for ad blocking software, or looking to learn about it, please read the entries here. We do believe strongly in user choice and blocking ads is your prerogative, but we’d like for you to be fully informed.
Please read the entries in this section to learn how your actions affect the owners of the websites that you enjoy for free.
A few years ago, we published a simple adblock detection script. Our purpose for this was to catch the users who had Norton Internet Security installed and inform them that the software they have installed may be blocking content (both ads and non-ads) without their knowledge. A few years have passed, and […]
A number of commenters here at Adblock.org have recommended that I take a look at Adblock Plus, a replacement to the long-time adblocking Firefox extension, Adblock. Many users of this Adblock extension recommend the use of the FilterSet.G blocking list.
I took a look to see how it works and from a Website owner […]
After all, it’s not something that’s so loathsome or unheard of in other media. We all put up with advertising on television, print media, billboards, even blimps and banner-towing airplaines. So why block ads on the Internet with such vigor?
In the past several months, ad blocking software has become very prevalent. Under the premise of “user choice”, software that now comes installed by default on many computers, actually modifies the content of web pages based on some very rudimentary and aggressive rules.