Mozilla Software → [Firefox] Witch should I use Adblock Edge or Adblock Plus???

I've been using Adblock Plus but lately I have heard about Adblock Edge. Witch one should I be using??? Is Adblock Edge any better that Adblock Plus??? are they the same??? Are they different???

I switched to Edge a long time ago. Never looked back.

i have no problem with ABP.. i don't see a need to look for anything else..

Ditto.

Quite happy with ABP although some stuff has been whitelisted of late that I've reported. Generally it's been items on EasyList.

Some threads of note you might want to look at.
»[Extension] AdblockEdge 2.1.4

WPalant chimes in:
»[Extension] Wladimir Palant - Adblock or Adblock Plus?

For those that are socially inclined:
»twitter.com/AdblockPlus

For Facebook users - there's specific filter lists for that purpose. No other Firefox add-on has this.
»facebook.adblockplus.me/en/

I've tried both and I've stayed with ABP; I don't allow the unobtrusive advertising.

Use Adblock Plus. They are similar, not the same. My opinion is Adblock plus is better. Some complain about it's optional white listing, also know as allowing acceptable ads. That is easily turned off if you do not want to see any ads.
»adblockplus.org/en/accep ··· s#optout

It's not as easy as switching off a checkmark.
The whitelisting also happens in subscription lists, such as EasyList.

Adblock Edge is simply a fork of Adblock Plus by some former ABP developers who protested some ads being whitelisted by ABP, thus made their own version. You do have the option of not allowing the whitelist in ABP, as well. I personally use ABP because it is supported by some helper extensions I use(like the element hiding helper) and has better platform support(including MIPS and ARM), and it works just fine. I personally like their goal too. That by enabling this whitelist by default, it encourages sites to make money and support themselves by using acceptable ads and improving their ethics, instead of punishing everyone by default and encouraging them to engage in an arms race trying to beat the ad blockers to support themselves, instead of improving their ads. I personally hate being tracked and block all ads, then just donate if I appreciate a site's service to me. I use anti-tracking measures outside of ad blockers too.

FWIW, Element Hiding Helper works fine with Edge.

Good to know. It did not list it as compatible last check, but maybe the code is similar enough. All the same, ABP is still fine and I am fine with what they are doing-trying to reform intrusive advertising while still giving the user control to block all ads.

I recently added "Fanboy's Annoyance List" via: (system will flag link)
»easylist.adblockplus.org/en/

Yes they do include @@ in several filters in EasyList. For a reason.

See this thread on their forum. EasyList Forum • View topic - EasyList whitelists

Quoted from that thread

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Most whitelist strings that look like ad sites are related to either of the following:
1. URLs that serve legitimate content, usually videos
2. JavaScript scripts that would cause the page to malfunction due to a script error if blocked
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If you take a closer look at those whitelists, you will find out that most of them contain things like "video", "media", "object-subrequest" etc. These are all necessary because many big site serve their videos or part of the videostream through adservers and those wouldn't work without them. Other whitelists are used to allow sites that use things like "http://ad." "/ads/" etc. for their legit content or - like already mentioned - implemented an ad-script in the wrong way so it has to be allowed to make the site work correctely.

Nevertheless, those whitelists should never allow any ads and if you actually find a place where this happens, it was probably not on purpose and will be fixed if you report it.

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