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So, I've been using ABP for Chrome for a while now. Works just fine. Pages where I want ads (like here) are ok, the others are ok, etc.
However, I've noticed that some sites (more specifically www.knack.be - it's a Dutch-language news site) have literally hundreds of ads being supposedly blocked per minute.
No, I'm not exaggerating, yes, I'm begin literal. That one site accounts for well over half of my blocks-to-date.
Now, besides perhaps a slowdown, which I haven't noticed, I don't think this causes me much of a problem. Still, I know what the site looks like - there are a couple of annoying overlay ads, the occasional rolling ad, you name it, but not hundreds of them.

Can anyone else pass by there and check whether they're getting such ridiculous amounts as well? And/or, what could be causing this? Some script retrying to add ads and failing?

I bet they have something setup where if one ad doesn't load, it automatically tries to serve another one. Since you've got the block on, it just sits and constantly tries to cycle ads through the various spots.

I've noticed that Chrome's adblock does a lot of false positives on websites that use a lot of scripting (like feedly for example). However it doesn't seem to impede performance. If anything, it should enhance it, because it takes less system resources to prevent something from loading than it does to load it, usually.

GasBandit said:

I've noticed that Chrome's adblock does a lot of false positives on websites that use a lot of scripting (like feedly for example). However it doesn't seem to impede performance. If anything, it should enhance it, because it takes less system resources to prevent something from loading than it does to load it, usually.

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Isn't Chromes adblock a bit different? I seem to remember it was different in FF in that it still had to load the ad, and then it would hide it. Some sort of limitation on what addons could do in Chrome.

Shakey said:

Isn't Chromes adblock a bit different? I seem to remember it was different in FF in that it still had to load the ad, and then it would hide it. Some sort of limitation on what addons could do in Chrome.

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I believe this problem has been rectified; but I may be wrong.

Bubble181 said:

what could be causing this? Some script retrying to add ads and failing?

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It could also be ad cramming, it was going around for a while and not everyone who was doing it has been caught.
Basically more ads were being loaded than could actually be displayed on the page, but they were still marked as "served" even though they weren't technically visible.

I tried to find the article about online impression fraud, but failed in the time allotted.

--Patrick

This seemed to be the best place to stick this (actually it's not, but it's close).

Hey, mobile browser users. Did you know your cell data carrier sticks a tracking cookie in every one of your HTTP headers, even if you tell them not to?

Try visiting the following website from a desktop/mobile and see what it gets you. Try it soon, the guy says he may be taking down the page soon.
http://lessonslearned.org/sniff

--Patrick

I get tracking flags if I use the phone's default browser (which I never do) but nothing using dolphin browser set to desktop mode.