Tag: adblock plus

Remove those Pesky Ads from Facebook

It is well documented how to add three elements to Adblock Plus for Firefox. However, I added another blocking rule to remove most of the remainder advertisements. The three Element Hiding Rules are facebook.com#*(social_ad) facebook.com#*(social_ad_advert) facebook.com#*(sponsers) I also added: http://www.facebook.com/ajax/emu/f.php?eid= Which resulted in many more ads being removed.

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Firefox Plugin: Adblock Plus to remove those unwanted Ads

I have grown tired of visiting my favorite websites only to be inundated with ads and images that take up so much real estate. I have found that Firefox has a great plugin or extension called Adblock Plus. I have tried editing the hosts file to point the junk and ad sites to 127.0.0.1, but the site still left a…

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