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

[Aractus]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Maybe you could get your money back. Oh, wait...

Boru

[Aractus]

My point is that like Firefox, Opera, especially Opera, and Maxthon they've sold-out to Google and their monopoly.

There are no good web browsers any more. Maxthon includes a built-in Ad-Hunter that doesn't block any google ads, and Google is its default search engine. At least you can easily change it to DDG, IX, SP, TPB or whatever you want. FF is worse - their default search engine is Google and you cannot change it in the standard settings. You have to go to about:config and good luck figuring that out. Opera is by far the worst - you cannot set the default search engine to one of Google's genuine competitors. You can add ixquick, startpage, etc but you cannot set any of your added search engine as the default, nor can you delete the default ones. Internet Explorer also sucks - you basically can't change your default search off Bing and if you do (manually in the registry) it has a way of putting it back on Bing without telling you. ABP is a sell-out. There is no way on God's earth you can call Google's ads "non-intrusive", it doesn't fit the definition at all in ABP's policy.

I don't typically use IE anyway, but the point is that every other web browser (Chrome is exempt because it's owned by Google) has sold-out to Google. Google has a complete monopoly on web browsers. And with ABP being the only Ad-blocking plugin available for IE they've found a way to exploit (monopolize) IE users as well.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

MY point is that you're bitching about free stuff.

Boru

[jesus_wept]

FF is worse - their default search engine is Google and you cannot change it in the standard settings. You have to go to about:config and good luck figuring that out.

I'm not using my home computer ATM but I'm pretty certain ff doesn't work like this anymore and you can change search engines without touching about:config.

[Nine]

MY point is that you're bitching about free stuff.

So what? If something is shit and free you still get to say that its shit.

[Aractus]

[Jaysyn]

[Aractus]

[Jaysyn]

You know, people have a choice and unlike you I wouldn't tell people that IE11 is the "wrong choice" - they're entitled to their opinion. In my opinion the very worst current browsers are: IE11, Safari and Opera, and all three of them are equally as bad as the other.

Well from a security standpoint you are very incorrect.

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Mozilla gets most of their revenue from Google. There is a pull down to change search engines right beside the address bar.

In mine there isn't.

Then you have screwed up a setting somewhere. Wonder if you have some malware on your PC that has removed it? It's generally not something you can remove from the browser GUI without removing the entire search box.

Read the fucking policy. The policy clearly explicitly lays out the criteria of "non-intrusive" advertising. Google does not meet the criteria for several reasons, not just one.

And yet you are whining about it here instead of complaining to ABP?