ABP (AdblockPlus) sucks and I will prove it...

[Aractus]

Yeah you can disable the setting. But as I said, if you go to http://getadblock.com/ it's never set in the first place.

http://youtu.be/wC1l4t2JHRs

http://youtu.be/MoZyIVmjJHg

Now you might say that it's not disguised as unread emails - that's a matter of opinion. So let's look at AdSense, the policy is here.

• Choose the location for your ads carefully.
  Publishers should never use tricks or deceptive practices in order to trigger accidental clicks on ads. Make sure that your ads are well-placed on your site, away from interactive elements, do not mimic the surrounding content and are not placed under misleading headings.

Okay so here's an example on Google itself:



And on startpage.com:



Now in both instances this is how they mimic the surrounding content (the genuine search results):

1. Same size and style and colour.
2. The advertising link is masked with a javascript function on mouse-over so that you can't see the advertising link.
3. The search terms are highlighted as if it's a search result.

Now to the casual eye on StartPage it looks like the first two are ads - they've got star-ratings beneath them and then the second two look like search results - but on closer inspection you can see that "scorpec computers" is indeed an ad as well, as it doesn't have the "view by ixquick proxy" link. That's a very subtle difference if you ask me. And if you're thinking "well just remember that the first result is the 4th link", think again:



Google, now they're trialling the yellow "Ad" icon is a bit better, but not by much.