StopAd

Block ads on all major browsers

21 followers

Block ads on all major browsers

21 followers

StopAd is the ultimate ad blocker. We block pop-ups, banners, and autoplay ads on all major browsers, like Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer. StopAd also removes ads on YouTube and Facebook as well as in apps and games. Plus, StopAd...

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We don't need this kind of extensions anymore, just go for ublock origin, which does a perfect job on any device and any browser.

Pros:

- Block ads

Cons:

- Not open source

- Not free

- Please just use ublock origin

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8yr ago

In first week the flight is good. I will continue to use it

Pros:

Fully copes with ADs

Cons:

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8yr ago

2 questions: 1. When we will see the security features on mobile version 2. Can this be updated to block ads on YouTube app as well

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8yr ago

Generally its a great adblocker so ill tell you how to get the pro version for free. Download stopad on IPhone/IPad and on the side bar you may see download for pc/Mac. Click that and a message will come saying send download link for stopad pro, what you want to do now is go to temp-mail on your browser and send it to a temp email address. Download and input activation license. After a month do this again with a different email.

Pros:

It blocks all the ads that I want, malicious websites and trackers.

Cons:

None.

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7yr ago

Cool app. Does it really block ads on Youtube?

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8yr ago

MacKeeper

Maker

@beckyross Yes! Just try it - and you will see)

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8yr ago

Wireframe Components Kit

@beckyross @kristina_zagorulko I personally don't like this because I care about people I follow on YouTube, and they get paid for the great content they provide us through monetization... At least I pay for YouTube Red and I don't worry about ads on YT.

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8yr ago

StopAd

Maker

@beckyross @kristina_zagorulko @megaroeny Hey Reony, StopAd has a possibility to whitelist certain types of ads or even a specific site. We leave it to the users - if you want to support content creators on YT - you've got it under control with StopAd. And besides that, Youtube shares less ad revenues with content creators as time goes by, so it's far more profitable today for vloggers to make promotional integrations with brands directly. We think that's a way better form of advertising. It is more of a recommendation from a youtube influencer to his audience, not a retargeted video ad that follows you through all of your devices multiple days in a row

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8yr ago

Wireframe Components Kit

@beckyross @kristina_zagorulko @egorka_edge good to know :) Thanks!

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8yr ago

MacKeeper

Maker

@megaroeny thank you for your interest!

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8yr ago

Is it better than ABP?

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8yr ago

StopAd

Maker

@hairynails Hey Howard, it def is. We don't participate in "acceptable ads" and we do block all types of ads in all major browsers and even in other apps. Since StopAd works straight out of the box, we block absolutely all ads by default but you can allow certain types of ads in the settings. If you would have some issue with our app functioning - just adress it to our support chat and you will receive answer just in a few minutes, no matter what time of day it is. And yes, we block FB and youtube ads way better, than ABP. Try it yourself and let me know :)

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8yr ago

@hairynails @egorka_edge IMHO better ads standards is meant to be a intermediary between publishers and users. I don't want publishers to end up asking us for memberships and acceptable ads just don't bother me that bad. So I'm sorry but I'm not supporting any product which doesn't participate in "acceptable ads", some of which may even interest me.

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8yr ago

StopAd

Maker

@inthe0n Look, Intheon, we put it this way: the only people who decide what ads are acceptable should be only the users. There is a beautiful ecosystem, where publishers, brands, ad tech and even big ad blockers with their extortion based 'acceptable ads' business model play their role and lastly - carriers, who earn more money from ads loading than publishers them selves. There is only one actor who doesn't have the right to influence the game anyhow - it is the user. A user is only being reviewed as an asset, not a shareholder. We think this is the most unfair part of the whole story. We let users to decide, which types of ads or certain sites to whitelist and to support. ABP is proud that 90% of their users don't opt out of 'acceptable ads'. That's just because it's opt out and the interface isn't user friendly enough to opt-out, on purpose. So, it's you who either chooses for yourself or delegates that to pretty biased third-parties. I can only promise you that if you try our app, it would deliver on what being promised

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8yr ago

@egorka_edge so here's my suggestion. Create an actually public acceptable ads list, which everyone can see and vote or use an existing one which doesn't rely on third parties but users, and then recommend to use this list on your app. Otherwise this is gonna end up really bad for users, that's why Google —mostly an ad company— just realeased out its own adblocker based on better ads standars so people stop using unfair adblockers. Yeah, there's some kind of extortion around 'acceptable ads' but, since you guys have a pro version available and is not a non-profit company, you're now making profit thanks to them, so here is the thing: membership for publishers or membership for blocking publishers earnings. It is just unfair and not a good deal neither for the users nor for the publishers, this is not good for anyone:) There Are unfair ads, but there're unfair ad blockers too.

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8yr ago

StopAd

Maker

@egorka_edge @inthe0n Generally your idea is impressive. We did hundred of users interviews with different models, but what we found out is that people usually do not want to accept any ads, even "acceptable" ones. That what happens when you want to get easy money by bombarding people with tons of ads every day for 5-7 years. Powerful publishers who work on decent content will never lose their audience and money from subscriptions, sponsored content and cross-marketing activities. Mediators, agencies, reposters, cheap and fake news sites will struggle, but we know that this is the fate of all so-so products. Google's move is just the next step to kill all other ad networks. That's the strategy they are stick to for many years.

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8yr ago

Do you have the mobile version?

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8yr ago

MacKeeper

Maker

@scalesbrant We have the mobile version for Android and IOS. It doesn't include the security features (yet). You can install it here for free:https://stopad.io/android or https://stopad.io/ios

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8yr ago

Wireframe Components Kit

@scalesbrant @kristina_zagorulko curious how this will be versus the upcoming built-in Chrome ad blocker :)

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8yr ago

StopAd

Maker

@scalesbrant @kristina_zagorulko @megaroeny welp it won't be a real ad blocker, rather an ad filter https://blog.chromium.org/2018/0... so if a site owner got "bad ads" on his site he will receive warning to remove those within 30 days and only after that his ads on that specific site might be blocked. You def don't think pop-unders on most visited adult sites would be removed for instance, do you? :) Because it is such a massive share of their monetization, it just won't happen

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8yr ago

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