Adblock Plus: reviews. Adblock Plus for Android

Probably, every Internet user noticed that today the World Wide Web is full of advertising. This applies even to situations where a user enters a site, and he immediately prompts for something to buy. To avoid the emergence of such obsessions, and was created a special supplement Adblock Plus, reviews of which speak for themselves. Let us dwell on this application in more detail.

What it is

To begin with it is worth dispelling the myth that Adblock Plus is a program in the usual sense. The point is that this add-on does not apply to the type of applications that are started in manual mode. Rather, it is a background service, installed in any "operating system", more precisely - in all browsers that are used for Internet surfing.

In other words, the same Adblock Plus package for Yandex-browser is an add-on, which can be turned on to block advertising after installation.

It is possible, of course, to understand with understanding the phrase that advertising is the engine of trade, but when it becomes too intrusive and passes all reasonable limits, this must be fought. It is for this purpose that the applet Adblock Plus was created, the reviews of which say that it is almost the best in its field. In addition to its main purpose, the service also has a number of additional functions, although not all of them are available on the same Android-devices.

Work principles

Now a little more about the addition itself. If you take Adblock Plus for Firefox or for any other browser used in the system for traveling on Internet sites, there are not any dramatic differences between versions that are compatible with a particular version of the browser. Typically, the plug-in itself has a standard interface that is integrated directly into the browser.

In the end, the same Adblock Plus add-on for Yandex-browser or any other can be seen only in the form of an icon hanging in the main panel in the upper right corner.

Both in fixed and mobile OS, the principle of the service remains the same. As you know, any advertising banner has its own link to a specific site and a special code for insertion on a specific site in agreement with its administrator. The principle of the Adblock Plus add-on is based on the system of blocking such cross-addresses and codes that are present in the banner, usually presented in the form of an animated figure in the .gif format (as a rule, conventional .jpg or .bmp images are extremely rare).

Installation in Internet browsers

Basically, the installation and use, say, Adblock Plus for Firefox, Chrome or any other means for accessing the Internet does not differ much in its basic principle. This, incidentally, applies to the operating systems themselves. For example, about such a service for Windows or about the applet Adblock Plus for "Android" reviews say only that there are no cardinal differences here. You just need to install the program through the installation distribution (usually it's a single file Setup.exe), and then activate the service in the selected browser. But here it is necessary to take into account several moments concerning the correct installation and operation of the application itself.

Here, it is worthwhile to dwell on stationary and mobile "operating systems", since some important moments are still present.

Stationary systems

In the ordinary sense of the principles of installation in general terms are very simple. It all boils down to the fact that you need to download or install the version of the application, calculated only for a specific browser. Say, in the case of installing Adblock Plus for Chrome, user and expert reviews say only that such an addition to the same "Opera" will not be possible. The application simply will not be able to integrate into internal services or the browser interface (although there are also universal distributions that install the service, regardless of which browser is used by the system by default).

Mobile devices

With mobile systems such as Android, things are somewhat different. First of all, to install the service, you need to turn on installation mode from unknown sources. This is done by accessing the settings, where you want to select the "Security" line. On the contrary, you need to tick it.

In the event that the add-on is installed from a computer terminal using any mobile gadget management program, in some cases it will be necessary to enable debugging via USB (when connecting the gadget via the appropriate port).

Now about the saddest. With regard to the installation of Adblock Plus, the feedback of the owners of Android-systems indicate that this service can be used without any problems only with the original OS version 3.1 and higher. In some cases, if a version is below the "four", root-rights may be required. And about the installation in the system 3.0 and lower generally do not have to say. Here no rights will not help (except that the device is flashed to a later version of Android). This is due to the fact that the problem will be to configure the proxy server. As practice shows, neither manual nor automatic configuration configuration in this case simply does not work.

Setting of basic parameters

As for the basic settings (both in stationary and mobile computer systems), everything is simple here.

As a rule, in any browser there is a special menu "Add-ons", where, in fact, Adblock Plus is located. User reviews say that you only need to activate the addition with the appropriate power button or "slider".

In mobile systems, you can specify startup when the device starts, select unwanted sites that will be blocked, specify an exclusion list, and specify the frequency of updating all site lists.

Program: reviews "for" and "against"

As evidenced by the reviews on the Adblock Plus program, in most cases, "heavy" advertising, which loads the system resources of any "operating system" (fixed or mobile), is blocked quite well. Naturally, this can not be argued.

However, there are some disadvantages here. The fact that the service itself in some cases may not work or behave incorrectly, considering that such and such and such a site are potentially dangerous. No, access to the web page will not be blocked , but problems can arise when viewing the resource. The most common such errors are found in mobile systems.

The result

As already understood, here we consider only the main aspects related to the installation and use of the Adblock Plus add-on in various operating systems, devices and Internet browsers. In principle, any user will be able to understand all the settings. You only need to select the appropriate version for your browser (or system).

As already mentioned above, it's better not to experiment with Android devices of the old generation, it still will not work. In addition, it is worth paying attention to and one more moment. Here, so to speak, the pitfalls in the global sense can also be present in the included settings of the browser or the system in terms of using ActiveX elements (in most cases for stationary computer systems with Windows on board). In some cases, disabling them can be a very effective method of dealing with banners or advertising, even without installing Adblock Plus in the appropriate browser. However, you also need to be very careful, because you can disable absolutely everything, and then pages of websites will not be displayed correctly or not displayed at all.

Such settings are recommended only for experienced users who are well versed in how such a shutdown can affect the overall system. Ordinary users will have the standard installation and application of default parameters. So no problems with the use of the Adblock Plus add-on should arise.

Moreover, in some cases after the inclusion of the service itself, even the participation of the user is not required, let alone that the manual launch of the application will not be necessary. As they say, this is the whole trick. And it is the moment of automation of blocking advertising plays a key role here.