When it comes to advertising, I agree with George Orwell who wrote the following in Keep the Aspidistra Flying in 1936:
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket.
However, virtually every news site on the web is infested with advertising ranging from the restrained to the impossibly annoying (you know the ones – distracting Flash animations. Ed.).
It was with a great sense of relief that I greeted the arrival of browser plug-ins that blocked advertisements. For years I used Adblock Plus, which is available for Firefox, Chromium/Chrome, Opera and is currently being developed for Internet Explorer. However, I was disappointed that Adblock Plus still allowed some ‘acceptable advertising’ and there was no way of turning off that particular setting.
Needless to say, I was most gratified to discover Adblock Edge, which is a fork of the Adblock Plus version 2.1.2 extension for blocking advertisements on the web.
Adblock Edge was primarily branched off from Adblock Plus 2.1.2 source code package “http://adblockplus.org/downloads/adblockplus-2.1.2-source.tgz” created by Wladimir Palant.
Adblock Edge provides the same features as Adblock Plus 2.X and higher but without “acceptable ads” feature.
Try it with your browser today!