ad blocker & support for vivaldi

[suharji]

just a little doubt about my settings. I want to support Vivaldi. what I actually have to do for the ad blocker that I marked.? give it a check or not.?

[TbGbe]

Just read it as "Support Vivaldi" ... then you decide whether to check (yes) or not (no).

[suharji]

@TbGbe in my opinion, giving a checklist means blocking ads..
I tried it on one of the sites.

then if I give checklis to support vivaldi.. means I also blocked it / didn't allow it

correction please

[DoctorG]

@suharji If you have checked, you support Vivaldi.
The Blocklist is in realty a Allowlist, little bit confusing

[Catweazle]

@suharji, it means that ads from sites which sponsor Vivaldi are not get blocked if you mark it. You'll see ads, eg in Ecosia, if you use it. Trackers still get blocked.

[DoctorG]

These Vivaldi Partners are not blocked if you activate "Allow Ads from our Partners":
startpage.com
ecosia.org
bing.com
duckduckgo.com

[suharji]

@DoctorG thank you.. now it's clear that giving him a checklist is to allow it..not block it..haha

[DoctorG]

@suharji You can have under Settings → Privacy → Blocker → Sources lists which allow and which block.
When such lists block or allow depends on its internal rules. May be this was misunderstood by you.
But regular users do not need so much insight on blocker rules, i guess, they want working blockers.

[astero]

@DoctorG said in ad blocker & support for vivaldi:

if you activate "Allow Ads from our Partners":

I don't see this setting in Vivaldi Desktop but I still see ads from DuckDuckGo. Is it a bug or a feature? Feature of making users forcefully watch ads?

[DoctorG]

@astero I do not see such ads from Germany.

Please tell which block lists do you have enabled in Vivaldi Blocker block list sources?

[Catweazle]

@astero said in ad blocker & support for vivaldi:

@DoctorG said in ad blocker & support for vivaldi:

if you activate "Allow Ads from our Partners":

I don't see this setting in Vivaldi Desktop but I still see ads from DuckDuckGo. Is it a bug or a feature? Feature of making users forcefully watch ads?

Settings >Privacy and Security > Manage sources, there in the adblocker filters you see "Allow ads from our partners" and disable it if you do not want to see ads in DDG.

[astero]

@Catweazle said in ad blocker & support for vivaldi:

Settings >Privacy and Security > Manage sources, there in the adblocker filters you see "Allow ads from our partners" and disable it if you do not want to see ads in DDG.

thanks, now I found it.

It was enabled. Anyway I decided to keep it enabled to support Vivaldi, but now I know the settings better. Thanks everybody for your support, guys!

[Catweazle]

@astero, aditional I also use these

• https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-cookiemonster.txt
• https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/
• https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-annoyance.txt
• https://gitlab.com/curben/urlhaus-filter/raw/master/urlhaus-filter-agh.txt
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/master/filters/filters.txt
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/master/filters/resource-abuse.txt

For me it works fine with these, but test it first, more filters not always better.