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Comment by flanbiscuit | Hacker News Reader

Is this there an open source alternative to Adblock plus?

AdBlock Plus is published under a GPLv3 license, so it is open source even if it doesn't have your preferred default settings. AdBlock Edge is a fork of AdBlock Plus that just disables the acceptable ads preference.

Personally, I don't use AdBlock Plus, but I think it is silly to criticize it for allowing some ads. Even in the first version it had a preference for allowing Google text ads -- the developers have always presented it as a tool for blocking annoying ads, not as a means for blocking all ads. That said, it is very easy to subscribe to another filter list in AdBlock Plus that blocks all ads.

uBlock is getting popular fast, but note AdBlock Plus itself is also open source.

I didn't realize that. I'm going to check out the source to see just which sites that are whitelisting

It's not in the source code, but instead in a subscription that ABP uses by default (it remembers if you unchecked "Allow some non-intrusive advertising" so it doesn't re-enable this list on every update): https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads

This is the subscription, which was originally linked from that page (but it now links to the Acceptable Ads subforum, which has a sticky that links to this subscription): https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/exceptionrules.tx...

uBlock₀

uBlock Origin

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

I don't know if disconnect.me is an exact alternative to AdBlock since I have never used AdBlock, but I like what it's doing and it's open source. https://disconnect.me/opensource

Adblock Edge is a fork of Adblock Plus without the whitelisted ads, although I don't really see the point as the whitelist can be disabled from a simple checkbox in settings.

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