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Adblock+ has been fine for me. Has anyone had any problems?

Personally, Adblock+ has earned my trust over a long period of time, so it's hard to see myself switching to something else unless the reason was dire.

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This is a response to an article[1] on memory use, and specifically a bug/limitation of ABP which causes it to use large amounts of memory (1GB+) on web pages which utilise many iframes.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus...

Trusting Adblock is hard because of the "acceptable ads" feature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversy_over_...

As far as I know (anybody please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this), it's Adblock PLUS that can't be trusted. Adblock (without the plus) is a completely separate project that's much more trustworthy. Adblock PLUS basically usurped Adblock by appending a "plus", making it seem like it's somehow better than Adblock.

It's not like that. A long time ago (2005?) there was an extension for Firefox called "Adblock". Eventually the development of this extension died, and it got forked with the name "Adblock Plus" in 2006 or so.

The Adblock you're referring to (the Chrome-only extension, right?) was published in 2009. As you can see, Adblock Plus predates it by 3 years or so.

Good to know, thanks for the correction.

I shifted to using Adblock Edge [1] after that. I got a good chuckle out of the term 'acceptable ads' though.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/

you can use adblock edge [0] -- it's a fork without the whitelist for ads

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/

You don't have to switch. The code is GPLv3, rather modular, and if they decline to import it, the idea behind it can be easily implemented.

My biggest problem is the memory usage. I use a lot of tabs at once, and I'm regularly finding myself swapping on an 8GB MBP.

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