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Adblock Plus 2.2.3 not working - Firefox 19.0

Old 22nd Feb 2013, 23:18
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Adblock Plus 2.2.3 not working - Firefox 19.0

Suddenly I'm seeing adverts where none were visible before.

Has there been a change in the format of PPRuNe adverts to circumvent Adblock (Plus)?

I'd got used to being ad-free . . .

I cannot detect any disabling of my add-ons.
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Old 22nd Feb 2013, 23:32
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Strange - I've just re-installed Adblock Plus and the adverts have disappeared again!

There was no indication that Adblock had been disabled within Firefox . . .
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Old 23rd Feb 2013, 07:29
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I've given up on FireFox, too many updates lately, gone over to Pale Moon which is FF optimised for windows:

The Pale Moon Project homepage
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green granite - thanks for the tip. Just downloaded Pale Moon x64 (never heard of it before) and it certainly is quick.
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Old 23rd Feb 2013, 09:49
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Well I've had no issues with Adblock Plus 2.2.3 and Firefox 19.0 but the mention of Pale Moon is interesting. A glance at Wiki suggests that Pale Moon's handling of Active-X and Scripting is different from in Firefox. Are those differences valid and what else have you noticed?

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Old 23rd Feb 2013, 10:02
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Haven't noticed any difference Cameronian, Active x doesn't work in Pale Moon any more than it does in FF and nor have I noticed any difference in script handling, but then again I did import my FF profile into Pale Moon when I installed it so that may mast any differences. But as Bern Oulli says it's quicker than FF.
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Old 23rd Feb 2013, 12:25
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You could always switch to the extended support release (ESR) version of Firefox: Firefox Extended Support Release FAQ

Download here: Firefox Extended Support Release for organizations | International versions: Get Firefox in your language
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Old 23rd Feb 2013, 13:23
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Pale Moon....just downloaded and initial reaction is that it is quicker than FF. Longer test needed to verify but all appears well.
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If you are running 64bit Win 7 then take a look at Waterfox which I find to be very quick on my system.
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Green Granite - thanks to you yet again! Just downloaded Pale Moon onto my Windows 7 on my Mac and its brilliant. One question. How do I enlarge stuff?
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Old 29th Dec 2013, 16:10
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Once again the adverts have returned - this time with W7, Firefox 26.0 and AdBlock Plus 2.4.

I have re-installed AdBlock and rebooted to no avail . .
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Palemoon 24.2.2. W8.1 and Adblock Plus 2.4 all working well.....famous last words !!
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No adverts here with FF 3.6.18 and unlnown version of ABP.
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Old 29th Dec 2013, 17:46
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This is spooky!

I'm getting adverts over YouTube - it's as if something has been downloaded onto my laptop - some sort of virus.

Off to do a scan . . .
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Old 29th Dec 2013, 19:27
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Malwarebytes has done its stuff (lots of crap deleted - wherever did all that come from?).

Seems that ads were coming from Google and that Google had disabled AdBlock - even though it was enabled in the main Firefox heading!
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Google (and some others) are becoming quite sinister and/or unpleasant in their ways lately.
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What makes you think it was Google that was responsible for the nasties you had picked up? I run the same setup as you and have not had any problems, and you would think that if Google was looking to circumvent ad-blockers that those not affected would be a tiny minority.
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Old 29th Dec 2013, 21:26
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What makes you think it was Google that was responsible for the nasties you had picked up?
I had a popup screen from Google that offered to restrict the nature of the adverts to 'non-specific' ones.

Of course it's possible that I only saw it when something else disabled AdBlocker.
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Old 31st Dec 2013, 11:55
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I find Adblock gets disabled every so often. Not sure if it's Google or simply the periodic autoclean.

I just click on the Adblock icon and reset my preferences.
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Google don't disable adblockers. If you have a pop-up offering to remove something for you if you just click here, you almost certainly have an infection that will get worse if you do.
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