Great Update to Adblock

By David Johnston
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

I know a lot of you out there use FireFox, so I’m sure extensions are no new news to many of you. However, I’ve just discovered a recent enhancement to Adblock which should make many of you very happy. It’s called the Adblock Filterset.G Updater. For those of you who might have just gotten lost, a little explanation is in order. The extension known as Adblock has the ability to filter out various parts of webpages, either getting rid of them altogether or just replacing them with blank space. One issue with Adblock is that the user must make the rules for defining what to see and what not to see manually. This can get annoying, and creating your own rules can sometimes be dangerous if you mistakenly filter out things that you do want to see. The creator of Filterset.G has come to the rescue, however. He has created his own list which users can import into their own Adblock extension so they don’t have to create their own rules. The only problem with this system is that until now there was no approved auto-update utility for the filterset (which changes almost daily). The creators of Adblock Plus and Filterset.G have worked together to fix this by creating their own extension to automatically synchronize your local filterset with the master filterset on a 5-day interval. Now some of you may think this takes all the fun out of creating your own rules, but I think the automation is great. Beware, though, it’s still in beta.

Check it out here.