AD BLOCK PLUS

Amira Hasan 270-004

Outline

What is Ad block Plus What can Ad block Plus do Installing Adblock Plus Choosing a filter subscription Disabling Adblock Plus Solving problems Uninstalling Adblock Plus Award Argument

What is Ad block Plus

Content-filtering An extension for Firefox

What can Ad block Plus do?

looks at all requests made by web pages Block the request The request should matches a filter in

Adblock Plus

Installing Adblock Plus

Adblock page addons.mozilla.org Click the big green installation button Confirm installation restart the application when asked

Show me how this is done

Installing Adblock Plus

Choosing a filter subscription

Choosing a filter subscription filters tell Adblock what should be

blocked EasyList (targeted at English-language

sites)

Disabling Adblock Plus

Disabling Adblock Plus on frequently used sites

Solving problems

What if Adblock Plus blocks too much?What if Adblock Plus doesn't block an

advertisement?

Solving problems

What if Adblock Plus blocks too much? dealing with a bad filter Disable filter

Solving problems

What if Adblock Plus doesn't block an advertisement?

Use the right filter subscription

Uninstalling Adblock Plus

Go to menu Tools Add-ons Select Adblock Plus in the list and click

the "Uninstall" button

Award

PC World chose Adblock Plus as one of the 100 best products of 2007.

Argument

The use of Adblock tantamount to theft: Cutting off income stream of website

operators who use online advertisements.

Thank you!