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by DaveWalk 3967 days ago
Good point. I know EFF has a mission versus the one-man show that is ABP, but isn't this mostly identical otherwise? Is Privacy Badger just APP with a political statement attached?

Maybe there's something to be said for that...put your money where your browser is and support the web you want. You could also just donate to the EFF, I guess.
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schoen 3967 days ago
ABP's default blocklist only blocks visible ads. Although there are also tracking-related ABP lists, they are manually-curated, which is different from Privacy Badger's attempts to detect trackers algorithmically.
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glass- 3966 days ago
ABP is not a one-man show, it's now developed by a company (Eyeo GmbH) that makes a lot of money getting companies like Google to buy into their "acceptable ads" scheme.

ABP also considers ads that track people (such as Google's) to be acceptable and whitelists them by default.

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DaveWalk 3966 days ago
Thanks -- I did not know this. Is there an available list of what ABP considers "acceptable ads?"
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dmarti 3966 days ago
The "acceptable ads" criteria are here:

https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads#criteria

If you make a modern-looking long-scrolling article that has an ad somewhere in the middle, it's not "acceptable". If you get a crappy CMS that splits every article into 9 pages with an ad at top and bottom, then it is.

The main weird thing is that 3rd-party tracking is "acceptable" (!)

(I recently added some details on the problem to the Aloodo tracking test, because users have started to assume that ad blockers fix everything. http://blog.aloodo.org/posts/adblockers-myths-facts/ )

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