[Non-Issue/Info] Adblock Edge to be discontinued, dev directs users to uBlock.

[RandomAcronym]

Link to AMO.

This addon will be discontinued on June 2015
Reason: Discontinued in favor of uBlock, a general purpose blocker, that not only outperforms Adblock Edge but is also available on other browsers and, of course, without "Acceptable Ads Whitelist".

Just FYI.

[mewblock]

You forgot to add related links.

https://bitbucket.org/adstomper/adblockedge/issue/197
https://bitbucket.org/adstomper/adblockedge/issue/78#comment-16982117

[gorhill]

I was looking at that NoMercy's Guide for uBlock, and for that kind of level of blocking, it would be much simpler to just advise users to turn on "I am an advanced user", then globally block 3rd-party requests (aka default-deny for all 3rd-parties).

This would result in an even more merciless configuration, users would be able to un-break through point-and-clicking if they care to un-break, and even when un-breaking, the page would still have to go through static filtering (default filter lists is stricter than ABP + EasyLIst + EasyPrivacy).

[lewisje]

I can't get that guide to load, and it has only been 22 minutes.

[mewblock]

@lewisje
NoMercy also providing Hidden service; this should work for ya.
http://ny44ts3j7jkd5gqf.onion:1223/data/proj/sw/adblock.html

[RandomAcronym]

@lewisje that link only works with Tor.

[lewisje]

"pie.estiva.org" is a clearnet domain and that's the domain that the link posted by @gorhill uses; I'll try the link posted by @mewblock when I load the Tor Browser Bundle.

[gwarser]

https://archive.today/zOuvg

[lewisje]

I almost forgot, those are the idiots who think any and all whitelists are "unnecessary" instead of being workarounds for false positives (especially in gorhill's case, for false positives in other lists, which he does not directly control); I hold the "NoMercy" forks of EasyList and some other lists in almost as much contempt as the "Adblock Edge" wankers, and I agree that gorhill's solution is better for those who really want to get rid of third-party whitelists and know what they're doing.

Now I'm not sure why that site was refusing to send anything to me; surely it can't be because I run a non-exit Tor node, because I would think the operator of a Hidden Service would be friendlier to node operators than that.