Adblock Plus is now available for Google Chrome !!

Adblock plus has been my top priority of add-ons on browser,
have been using it on my Firefox and it's a great add-on to block pop-ups, hide flash ads. very useful!

And the great part is : it's now available for Chrome !!
For you Chome users, must check this out, you can add it on
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb

Hope it's useful for you as it is for me! Cheers!

 

been available for really long time. It is just an update.

 

well for those who havent use it I just searched the forum and no thread mention it

 

i use Adblock, which really is out for ages. I'd like to see the differences, but, well.. Link doesn't work for me right now (this application is not currently available).

 

did you open it with Chrome ?

 

no, sure not. why should i? /sarcasm

obviously, yes. but i can't access the chrome store at all right now. no clue..

 

lolol .. nice one

because I've just installed it today.

 

No one cares tbh. I think you would have to be stupid to use google chrome. By all means if you like everything you type being sent to google as 'anonymous user statistics' so they can provide you with 'relevant advertising' then be my guest.

This.

 

@Zeptinune

You can turn off sending anonymous user statistics. It's basically a flag you need to change in the engine, and Google even provides an extension that does it for you.

 

Rejoice!

 

works now. and zepti: well, big fail. so far, you looked like you deserve reputation

 

Well it's pouring in really.. either people on the forums are really generous or I'm doing something right lol.

I've read a lot of stuff about google chrome. I once wanted to try it as well...

This page has 'some' correct information on what GC keeps of your data. The second statement that your search history is kept private is unfortunately incorrect. After reading their privacy policy the truth is far worse...

Lifehacker has a little bit more trustworthiness on the matter..

Here also. Crash reports aren't much of a worry but 'usage statistics' is a very broad term.

If you actually read their privacy policy it states: 'By using google chrome you agree in the fair use policy that google reserves to right to; save, edit, copy, reproduce (etc) your anonymous usage history to provide you and others (so much for anonymous) with relevant search terms, information (propaganda), suggestions (etc)' 'If you do not agree to this do not install google chrome'.
I cant find the actual web link that I looked at 2 or so months ago that had the screenshot and excerpt in full but that's more or less what it said. The other links are all living proof. If you don't mind what google knows about you and you have nothing to hide then fine. But as for me, I like to know that I have some privacy left on the internet. So it's firefox for me. Not to mention Firefox is a Non-profit organisation (the opposite of google) that is for a good cause.

This is crazy: Microsoft Blasts Google Chrome For 'Stealing' Your Privacy (VIDEO) - It's no joke or secret that google has been selling your usage data to big corporations for a fat fee.. How else do companies know what to monopolise on these days? That fact that it's included with almost every other program as a 'free download' is scary enough. Googles marketing and software-placement is insane... to say the least.

Oh and just for laughs
Mother ing chrome
(Had to change the url due to 'you know what' in the address link)

 

Er, your "usage" data is... what... half sent search terms? You're very confused.

Here's what Google collects (if you even ENABLE IT, which by default you don't.)

1) Crash reports. (You have the choice to enable this before you even download it.)
2. Anonymous usage data:

Well let's break that into two parts:
a)Incomplete submission for instant data:
What this means is that if I type (with instant enabled in the settings, it's default off) bla, it sends "bla" to google and gives me back "black" and starts loading black. (just an example) OH GOSH GOOGLE KNOWS THAT I TYPED IN BLA! Except it's anonymous... and you have to enable it...

b) Bad pages. As in, if I go to go0glz.com, it's not a real site. This is sent ot google, processed, and they send back "did you mean google.com?" and you say WHY YES, THANK YOU!. But of course, only if you've even enabled this in the settings.


Now Google as a company is different from the browser. Google adsense/double click will track you (just like... facebook...twitter...digg...almost any site) but you can opt out of this with google (but not facebook, or twitter, or digg, or almost any other site) and in fact google provides you with the means to do so!

Are they selling ANONYMOUS data? Probably. It's so that companies like MS can see "oh, people are search for 'blue' a lot, let's make random blah blah blue" and other crap like that -- ie: making the user experience better.

Again, you have to ENABLE this from the get go for any of it to even apply.

Oh gosh, I actually read that microsoft article. Did you?

As for the first article, FireFox will sync your data the same exact way. I haven't used Opera in forever, but I'd bet it does too. How do you think we are able to use all of these features? You need to have a server somewhere that stores your bookmarks if you want to sync them.

In fact, if you actually READ those articles they say almost exactly the opposite of what you say! lol, google doesn't "steal" any of that information. You enable it. And that information is all used to provide some service. It's not stealing info just to sell it off, it's using the info that you GIVE to it (and can easily stop giving to it, in fact more easily than giving it) to provide "instant" results, or proper page results, or to clean up bugs from crash reports.

 

And, on topic, I suggest you use the adblock plus developer builds. Much better than the stable.

 

This is turning into a case of opinion it seems. I've done a lot of research on Chrome, it's everywhere. Lots of my friends use it and we talked about if it was a security issue or not.

When I installed Chrome all of the settings were enabled by default. This was to give you a 'better user experience'. You had to disable them personally. When you think of how it's included as an already ticked 'yes' in many downloads already.. Just about everything from Adobe ships with Chrome, uTorrent once suggested you install Chrome, Avast! also had 'Download Chrome' already ticked to yes. Tons of ignorant people are more than happy to click next, next, next. You know how people are these days.

I don't feel 'safe' or happy with google selling my data to large corporations. Sure it's obvious they're doing it anyway when I use their search engine but as far as I'm concerned I'll stay away from their browser. I hate the design, hell I can't even manage the files that I download properly in that stupid little statusbar they give you.

If you can sleep at night using Google Chrome then great. At least I know when I use Firefox I wont have to defend Mozilla for anything or justify my reasons for using it like all the Chrome users I've spoken to do.

 

as long as the stuff is anonymous it doens't bother me the slightest. because, why should i care? i have usage reports enabled in EVERY application that i can (including os, office, visual studio, etc), so they know how i use the stuff. based on that, the companies explore the future of their products, see where i happen to do similar click patterns time and time again, and then create a more simple solution in the next product version.

and if google uses it to show me ads, why should i care? read the title of this topic..

 

Dislike of chrome's design or google's choice to opt-in everything by default just like every other software installation of the last 10 years, is entirely unrelated to the topic - ABP has been available for chrome for quite a while, although the mechanism could still use some work. As far as privacy issues go, ABP will still work with chromium/iron, last i checked.

 

Well thanks to you davepermen companies are pretty good these days at developing software but I'm still not sure I want processes running in the background just so a company can gather my data even if it is anonymous.

Cheers though

 

@Zeptinune,
I can understand you're argument if you're not using internet, no computer, living inside forest maybe, in hidden and closed house, protecting you're precious data..

but if you're not, it's pretty much baseless

 

I'm not going to address some of this because it's silly to argue with people over the internet.

Products need information to provide services. If you're uncomfortable with this, I think you're paranoid (You should look up MD5 hashes and how they're used on servers if you're worried about privacy) but I personally have spent time arguing with enough people to understand how Chrome works.

Background processes are not gathering information on you... no offense but this only furthers the argument that you're very confused (it's likely you went into this research with the intention of finding something "dirty" as you've picked up articles that aren't really saying anything and have extrapolated quite a lot) because Chrome's other processes are sandboxed tabs/extensions. Each one has a dedicated V8 for it, so that rogue javascript can't infect your computer. I won't go into how it works, that's not the point.

I'm HAPPY to give out my (100% anonymous) data to any company if it means that I get a service. What do I care if a company knows that some random person out there goes to notebookreview? Perhaps they'll examine the website and say "oh we can optimize blah blah blah for notebookreview.com so it loads that much faster." Or a company can say "Hmmm, notebookreview is very popular, we should implement a similar user interface on our site."

And no one defends Mozilla because it's never attacked. I don't go "HEY! Mozilla is storingn your bookmarks on its server! It's syncing your data by keeping it on their servers!" because no one cares abuot Mozilla. People care about Chrome because the media's gone after it that way. Google is a huge company, stories that attack ita re goign to run a LOT better than stories that attack a little nothing company like mozilla.

Please do some actual research. Instead of googling (or yahooing?) "Google Chrome steals your info" try searching "Google Chrome doesn't steal your info" or "Does Google Chrome steal your info?" and get both sides of the story.

 

And again, on topic. I think the "new" adblock plus for Chrome now blocks HTTP requests, which means it's not just "hiding" the ads anymore. This has been available for a long time on the developer builds, which is why I suggest you guys use them

 

awesome man , i never know have such thing!

 

Thanks for the info' Crayonyes!

 

your problem. then never, ever, about ANY problem you might ever have with any software. if you don't do your part, your problem.

 

Which is better Adblock or Adblock Plus? I've been using Adblock for a long time cause I didn't know ABP was out for chrome yet.

Oh yeah, Chromium FTW!

 

Adblock Plus Beta is the best adblocker out there imo

 

Adblock Plus since it is made by the same people who do it for Firefox.