Here’s How to Block Ads with Adblock Plus

Adblock Plus 1.1.1 can be installed onto the following browsers or a more recent version of them: Firefox 3.0.9, Thunderbird 3.0 Beta 3, SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 1, Songbird 1.2, Prism 1.0 Beta 1.

The install of Adblock Plus is a breeze. It is assumed you use the Mozilla Browser. The adblock extension (software) can be obtained from Adblockplus.org or Mozilla (recommended): Click Add to Firefox. Then select Adblock Plus in the software Installation window and hit the Install button. A wink later and you’re done. Restart Firefox.

You will notice the stop symbol on the top right corner of your browser toolbar. If it is red the ad-blocker is active, greyed otherwise. A great site to test the Adblock Plus is Bright Hub. Hovering with the mouse over the Adblock Plus icon in the depiction below tells us that one ad from the Google Ad network Adsense plus one ad from Kontera, a so called in inline text ad, have been blocked.

Adblock Plus can be set to globally suppress ads or to disable online advertisement on a per site bases or per page bases. People use the adblocker because

• They are Adsense publishers or publishers of other ad networks and want to prevent clicking inadvertently on their own ads
• Ads take longer to load than page content
• They find ads simply annoying

On www.Adblockplus.org there are FAQ’s, documentation as well as forum for the adblock extension, yet Adblock Plus is very easy to use.

The best thing for last: Adblock Plus is completely free.