On 2017-03-12 12:36, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 04:33:23PM +0000, Daniel Abrecht wrote:
>> On 03/12/2017 03:49 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
>> > On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 01:55:27 +1100
>> > Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@???> wrote:
>> >
>> >>> Plus, on Ubuntu (I am yet to fully test Midori on the Devuan laptop) I
>> >>> found out it has many addons I was afraid wouldn't be available:
>> >>>
>> >>> Adblock "Block advertisements according to a filter list"
>> >> The best blocker is "uBlock Origin" both words, not just uBlock.
>> >>
>> >> They say they are not an ad blocker, but they block ads and other bad
>> >> stuff by default -- is that available for Midori? If it is, go with
>> >> that in place of Adblock (any variant).
>> > Have you considered rolling your own add-blocking with a list of unwanted sites in /etc/hosts ?
>> I'm using the block lists from Pi-hole on my local DNS Server, which
>> has
>> the benefit that I don't need to install an AD-blocker on each of my
>> devices.
>>
>>
>
> Namely. I still don't see why one should have a different ad-blocker
> embedded into each broswer. A simple all-round solution is reported,
> for instance, among the add-ons to surf:
>
> http://surf.suckless.org/files/adblock-hosts
>
>
> KatolaZ
>

Can any of these alternative adblocking tools block elements within a
page? AdblockPlus allows for that and I use it almost every day.

gilinux