Adblock Plus is the most popular browser extension available for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Android. Its primary purpose is to remove all intrusive advertisements from your browsing experience: YouTube video ads, Facebook ads, banners, pop-ups, pop-unders, background ads etc.

Adblock Plus is an open source project licensed under GPLv3 and subject to its Terms of Use. 

How does Adblock Plus work?
Choose what you want to see when browsing the web by using filter lists to block unwanted elements, like ads or tracking. 

What are filter lists?
Filter lists are sets of rules that tell your browser which elements to block. You can block as little or as much as you want. Choose from pre-made, externally maintained filter lists, or create your own (English only). Almost all pre-made filter lists are created, published and maintained by users for users under open source licenses.

Many ads have tracking built in and some may even contain malware. Because of this, Adblock Plus provides certain levels of tracking and malware protection by default. If you want, you can add additional tracking and malware filter lists to increase your protection.

Default filter lists
The following filter lists are enabled by default when you install Adblock Plus:

1. Blacklisted Ads
A filter list that blocks ads (e.g. EasyList) based on your browser’s language settings.

eyeo GmbH is not related to the EasyList project and therefore has no right to, or control over, its filter list content. Visit the EasyList Community for more information.

2. Acceptable Ads
A feature that supports a better web by allowing nonintrusive, respectful ads that comply with the Acceptable Ads criteria agreed upon by the Acceptable Ads Committee.

Does Adblock Plus collect any user data?
We do not specifically collect any user data. Most of your data (e.g. what websites you visit) is never sent to our servers to begin with. Please see our Privacy Policy for more details.

How is Adblock Plus financed?
Our main source of revenue comes as part of the Acceptable Ads initiative, which is managed by an independent committee.

Implementing the Acceptable Ads criteria is part of eyeo’s (the company behind Adblock Plus) attempt to pursue a different vision of online advertising. It requires significant effort on eyeo’s side including, but not limited to, ongoing review and monitoring of the individual whitelisted ads, advising participants, and providing technical support. These services cannot be done as a hobby, or completely taken over by volunteers.

Therefore we only charge large entities a license fee so that we can offer the same whitelisting services to everyone and maintain our resources to develop the best software for our users.

FACT: Around 90 percent of licenses are granted for free to smaller entities.

We qualify an entity as large when it gains more than 10 million additional ad impressions per month due to participation in the Acceptable Ads initiative. For a large entity, our licensing fee normally represents 30 percent of the additional revenue created by whitelisting its Acceptable Ads.

Every entity on the whitelist - paying participant or non-paying participant - MUST maintain the same strict criteria that our users accepted as part of the Acceptable Ads initiative. We will never accept any ad that doesn't meet the criteria, and there is no way to buy a spot on the Acceptable Ads list. All whitelisted ads and participating entities are publicly listed on our forum. Feel free to discuss and share your opinions.

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