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Adblock Plus is a free extension that allows you to - among other things - block annoying ads, disable tracking and block domains known to spread malware.

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  • Freemium (Subscription)
  • Open Source

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  • Vivaldi
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Comment summary: Adblock Plus is praised for blocking ads effectively across many platforms, enhancing user experience. However, criticisms include increased memory usage, particularly on Firefox, and claims of allowing certain ads through by accepting payments from advertisers. This has led users to explore alternatives like uBlock Origin, favored for its faster performance and commitment to privacy. While useful, Adblock Plus has faced scrutiny over its default ad whitelisting and its monetization strategies.
Top Positive Comment
smed79
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Adblock Plus is a web browser extension that comes with a clean, user-friendly interface and increased functionality. It blocks YouTube ads, floating video ads, display ads, and banner ads, browse anonymously without trackers creating a profile of you. You can whitelist a site to always allow ads or toggle off the blocker for a specific page. There’s no need to create a block list, as the plugin does that for you. This is all extremely useful, especially for a free product. The free version of ABP is may be all you need to enhance your webpage experience but if you subscribe to the premium you will have even more options like blocking site notifications and blocking floating videos. If you want to filter more content, subscribe to the appropriate ABP filter list from easylist.to

ABP hase a whitelist of acceptable ads enabled by default which can be disabled if you want.

If you are facing unblocked ads, repport it to easylist at github.com

Top Negative Comment
Jimbo Styles
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  • This app takes money from ad companies to whitelist ads
  • This app is objectively slower than uBlock Origin, developer does not care about optimizing the speed
  • tl;dr developer wants ad company money, he will f you in the a
xSalty1
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This pay to advertise blocker is not a good model.

trollbasics
2

Takes bribes to allow ads.

Let that sink in now. An adblock company that sells whitelisting.

Casper Rivers
1

-worse than uBlock Origin (and uBlock Origin Lite if you use chrome) -paid by ad companies to show you ads

inson1
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Its trying to become monopoly

TBayAreaPat
0

This is the extension they always have built-in for Browsers that can't get extensions. Makes me think there's some incentive. I've always preferred AdGuard.

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What is Adblock Plus?

Adblock Plus is a free extension that allows you to - among other things - block annoying ads, disable tracking and block domains known to spread malware.

Available for Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Maxthon, Opera, Safari and Yandex, Adblock Plus uses filters that you choose to block all unwanted elements.

Adblock Browser icon Adblock Browser , a mobile web browser with Adblock Plus built-in, is also available for Android and iOS.

Adblock Plus itself does not block ads by default. However it does unblock 3rd party ads who pay to be included on our whitelist via EyeO, our parent company.

Adblock Plus requires the user to "tell" it what to block by adding external filter lists. Filter lists are essentially an extensive set of rules that tell Adblock Plus which elements of a website to block. Our default whitelist is enabled by default overriding all blocklists by default.

You can add any filter list you want. For example, block tracking or malware. You can also create your own filter lists. Almost all filters are open source, therefore many filter lists have been created by Internet users.

You can "opt" out of our unblocking whitelist by disabling it manually.

Filter lists enabled by default include:

An ad-blocking list selected based on your language (EasyList) The Acceptable Ads list

These are enabled to get you started. You can remove them or add others - it's up to you.

EasyList corresponds to your browser language and is aimed at disabling ads that are considered to be intrusive by our community of users. Eyeo GmbH did not draft EasyList and therefore has no right to, or control over, its content other than our default global whitelist. Visit the EasyList Community for more information.

The Acceptable Ads whitelist displays ads that comply with the acceptable ads criteria. The list is maintained by Eyeo GmbH.

Adblock Plus information

  • Developed by

    DE flagEyeo GmbH

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $2 and $4 per month + free version with limited functionality.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.4 (26 ratings)

  • Alternatives

    133 alternatives listed

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Arabic
    • Dutch
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hungarian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Spanish
    • Turkish

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Our users have written 40 comments and reviews about Adblock Plus, and it has gotten 1753 likes

Adblock Plus was added to AlternativeTo by 3F1 on and this page was last updated . Adblock Plus is sometimes referred to as ABP, Adblock.