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[http://adblock.mozdev.org Adblock] is an extension for Firefox and Mozilla Suite. It can hide graphics on pages, block them from ever loading, block JavaScript files, embedded frames (IFRAMEs), and Flash movies. It uses wildcards and regular expressions to match files to block. The following is a list of example filters for Adblock.
[https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/10/ Adblock] is an extension for Firefox and the Mozilla Suite. It can hide graphics on pages, block them from ever loading, block JavaScript files, embedded frames (IFRAMEs), and Flash movies.


Blocks ads in any directory called "banner", "banners", or any case insensitive equivalent:
Adblock Plus a forked version that is recommended on Mozilla Add-ons and consistently one of the five most downloaded Firefox extensions. It supports [http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions filter subscriptions] or you can write your own [http://adblockplus.org/en/filters filters].
  /\Wbanners?\W/
 
Blocks ads in any directory called "ad", "ads", or any case insensitive equivalent:
  /\Wads?\W/
 
Blocks ads on Yahoo!:
/yimg\.com(.*/adv/|/a[^u])(?!vision)/
 
Additionally, there are several filtersets available online such as the popular [http://www.pierceive.com/ Filterset.G] and [http://tagworld.com/paulfox FiltersetP]


===See also===
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Revision as of 11:07, 4 March 2007

Adblock is an extension for Firefox and the Mozilla Suite. It can hide graphics on pages, block them from ever loading, block JavaScript files, embedded frames (IFRAMEs), and Flash movies.

Adblock Plus a forked version that is recommended on Mozilla Add-ons and consistently one of the five most downloaded Firefox extensions. It supports filter subscriptions or you can write your own filters.

See also

Problematic extensions

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