Chrome Addon: AdSweep a Chrome ad blocker
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Loading ...Edit: AdSweep is no longer under development. You can use the other chrome adblock addon that blocks ads for real.
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I tried this addon, and it did cut out the adverts. It was great.
BUT it affected a couple of the games I play, the options ingame, and so I realized I needed to get rid of it.
I now have deleted the script file and reverted the shortcut back to what it was, but even now I still can’t use the options in my games.
found a real adblock add on that works for Chrome at mark8t.com
This doesn’t block ads. It just hides them. Another bogus “addon” for chrome.
Privoxy – block ads in ANY program.
@James: Why do you call it bogus? FYI, open distrowatch.com in your favorite browser using one after the other: AdBlock, Privoxy and AdSweep. AdSweep is the best to clean it
Unfortunately, this breaks some layouts.
For example, Facebook gets shifted way over due to the Advertisement column not being there – a problem I never had to deal with on Firefox’s Adblock.
Firefox add blocker was not as complecated to download. All I had to do was download it press enable and restart my browser. It also worked better because it did not shift the page.
adsweep works ok if you cant use privoxy, if you can use privoxy use that!
it doesn’t work for me
Adsweep is alright but isn’t perfect. The only site it actually works perfectly on is distrowatch.com
Try loading http://www.yahoo.com.au under adsweep and adblock plus. Some advertisements that are even captioned with “advertisement” are not removed by adsweep at all!
This works as advertised ( no pun ) for me.
I am using Win7. So the procedure will be similar to Vista. But it is not working at all. I followed the same way, i have cecked steps more than 10 times.
I am using ver 1.0.154.59
BULLSHIT
this has nothing to do with adblock and everything to do with stylish:
this REMOVES content VISIBILITY after it has rendered. big fucking deal
until chromium greasemonkey support offers pre-render interaction firefox is still great leader for adblocking
http://srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
to: obama the racist (above)
But tell us how you REALLY feel eh? What are you – on crack or something? Next time you have a thought….let it go.
google create crome because firefox user block google ad using adblock plus. why waste time create adblocker for google crome ?
This add-on is a joke. I have spent an hour following the directions and still the damn thing does not work.
Well guess I am back to using firefox, it’s adblock plus add-on works perfect with basically a few clicks to install.
They should just make an installer and to hell with this install instructions.
Let’s see some helpful comments like ezee’s (above) since most of us want the technology and it obviously isn’t there yet. I have yet to download this Ad Sweeper and maybe I’ll be disappointed but when I report my problems if any, I’ll state what system I’m running, what happens and where so the developers can replicate it.
Gripes and Moans really get old.
Does not work under current installation version from google (1.0.154.65)
both –enable-greasemonkey and script in C:\scripts or –enable-user-scripts and script in User Script doesnt work at the moment.
@chotnik: using the same version as you and i can’t get it to work either. followed the instructions to the letter, not sure if i missed out a step?
THE SOLUTION FOR CHROME VERSION 2.x :
If you use Chrome 2.x (recommended), find out your user data directory (mine is C:\Users\Charles\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\ on Windows Vista). Create a “User Scripts” directory inside your user data directory (in my case, that is C:\Users\Charles\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User Scripts\). Copy the AdSweep.user.js file into your “User Scripts” directory. Right-click the shortcut icon of Google Chrome, either on your desktop or in your “Start” menu, and click “Properties”. Select the second tab named “Shortcut”, and in the “Target” field, append –enable-user-scripts with a space inbetween; the command flag –enable-user-scripts has to be outside the double quotes, if any. For instance:
Before: C:\Users\Charles\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
After: C:\Users\Charles\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe –enable-user-scripts
SOURCE: http://www.adsweep.org/
Re: THE SOLUTION FOR CHROME VERSION 2.x :
For Windows XP, my directory would be C:\Documents and Settings\Mike\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User Scripts
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Hey! New info, Adsweep They have an actual Chrome extension now! Bravo! By the way, I used Privoxy for a while, it’s alright, but it still leaves ugly placeholders which Adsweep takes away.
fuckin hard installation..
mozilla 100000x simple….
(but 3.5 = shit)
i’m trying out chrome for a month, it’s been a few days. i really miss the firefox addons, especially the adblock. i’m not going to follow this instruction to install chrome’s version of adblock. if i’m going to play with files/directories manually, i would be using linux.
i wonder if chrome/google will ever corporately support creating a adblock similar to firefox’s?
NO NO NO doesnt work just hides the damn advert after its has loaded, waste of time !!! Far too complicated for the simple user should be a one click install… Back to fire fox for me !
To Charles and some other retarded posters:
AGAIN, THIS ADDON DOESN’T NOT BLOCK ADS – JUST HIDE THEM AFTER THE CHROME DOWNLOADED THE WHOLE PACKAGE! Way to save traffic and hdd cache, remain secure and anonymous. Stop posting if you dont have a clue!
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Guys the author of AdSweep discontinued the addon unfortunately, because of lack of help from the users.
If you know javascript/CSS can you please help?
Contact Charles at http://adsweep.org/
Addons? Google chrome doesn’t have addons.. this is shit.
in reading all of this i’m reminded of the very last two words grandpa ever uttered; “A TRRRUUUUCKKKK!”
Hello,
Is there any way for me to get my addon published on this site? I think it would be really useful.
Thank you,
Dusty
Didn’t work for me either. I have windows XP. I copied AdSweep.user.js into my C:\Documents and Settings\Vicky\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User Scripts folder and I changed the properties for google to “C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” –enable-user-scripts
He said to put the command outside the quotes, so I hope I did that right? I get an error saying
Oops! This link appears to be broken.
And in the google search box under the error it says
enable user scripts 475k
So I have no idea what went wrong there.
LOL….how can chrome block ad instead it provides it???? googleadsense…googlead…fiuh…sucks browser
Adsweep is the Lindsay Lohan of adblockers. A real adblocker blocks the ads, not hides them.
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For the people who created Google Chrome- These set of instructions are way to damn complicated. People are not going to switch from Firefox to Google Chrome because Firefox is very easy to use. And Firefox has way better add-ons. Google Chrome SUCKS. Hows that for some honest consumer feed back.
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The point of view in question is not one accessible only to a single individual. ,
@ joey
chrome does not officially support add-ons. essentially what you are doing is a hack. at the end of the day if you hate this browser so much why are you going to these lengths to customize it?
IMPO chrome is a nice simple browser but not without its problems like anything else. i switched from firefox well over 6 months ago and have watched chrome get better and better. add-ons are being tested in the developer edition right now i here. it will be nice when they are implemented mainstream.
So I go to the site to download.
First thing that flashes me in my face is a big banner about I just won $1,000,000. Right there you come close to lose me. I mean, an ugly blinking, annoying $1,000,000 add on an add blocking site, what is that all about???
Then I try to understand the download and install instructions…
Excuse me for not being a complete computer geek, but I don’t get it. If you can’t take the time to make instructions for ordinary people to understand, you probably haven’t taken the time to create good software in the first place.
I’m out of here…
After what I spend an hour reading on the different plugins available for Chrome, none of them really works and are too hard to install for the average user.
I am beginning to think, Google is the company behind Facebook. There is no visible professional staff to work on Chrome or in the forums, only volunteers. If nothing is done to adblocking and security in Chrome, all users will eventually return back to Firefox.
And Google will forever remain “the search-engine” and nothing more. This is too bad, because Chrome was such a nice, fastloading and minimalistic “no-bullshit” browser.
Although I finally installed it, it will not work (despite the fact that at adsweep.org the red banner appears).
But that does not matter.
What really matters is that Google is not willing to spend any more time on making the browser user-frienldy, which simply means that this nice browser will slowly “die”…
Hey TS, do you think the adsweep.org banner was there to make a point about ads? It’s not a clickable ad, it’s just an annoying banner ad to show that your browser isn’t filtering out ads properly.
With the previous build, installing adsweep would stop that banner ad from showing up to show that it works.
Do you have any screenshots or videos of this working?
It’s more of a security concern for me, as I do not want to end up part of an involuntary botnet.
Also, to whom it may concern, Chrome does, in fact, support addons. BUT, you have to switch to the Chromium Developer’s Channel and install the latest developer’s build of Chromium. (At the time of this post, that would be 4.0.237.0)
For more information on how to do this, check the URL below.
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
Hey TS hater,
EPIC FAIL!!!
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Pain in the hidparts to make work but once you do it is noticeably better than adblock for firefox
I like Chrome browser, however add on’s etc are to technical.. I am only a novice geek. My primary goal is to access the internet with a browser that gives me the most flexibility and easy down load of add on’s. Chrome is too complicated for average internet surfers. If Google OS is not made KISS, {KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID},THEN YOU WILL NOT ATTRACT ALLOT OF US SIMPLE PEOPLE. KISS Google os, or kiss it good bye. It’s us stupid geeks that will make or break you OS. Hello windows, hello Fire Fox.Get the picture ???????
P. S. I wonder if any of the Google people really read this stuff. If they do, why are they trying to sabotage their own company???? I have read all the comments and it’s plane to see, Chrome is just to complicated for John Doe average computer user. If you don’t make Chrome OS simple{KISS} like Firefox,then then Chrome OS is DOA {DEAD ON ARRIVAL}….. I use Firefox with Google search and g-mail, all very good. but Chrome Browser is garbage, and one must assume that the OS modeled on Chrome browser will be garbage too. I hope you can get it right before release in 2010.
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This add-on sucks. A real solution is adblock plus for mozilla firefox. The only reason of why i stay with that browser.
chrome is a fast no frills browser if they have add ons all over it that will bloat it which is what happens to firefox.
i have started using chrome now because i keep getting memory leak issue in firefox with too many tabs open. I hope i don’t get it in chrome. But yeah ad block plus in firefox works great.
this add on is a waste of time i spent hours on it and this shit won’t work… better Firefox than this
just to much fuss to install this addon.
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What’s the difference between this and http://www.mychromeaddons.com/chrome-addon-adblock-for-google-chrome/?
Running Win XP (Home version)
An user of Firefox for many years, recently began trying Chrome. Like the clean, elegant look but find the ads bothersome. AdSweep is a
joke. It was installed “successfully” but does nothing. If it requires spending time and tweaking settings. then it is not for me…don’t know enough.
So, until google offers an user-friendly ad blocker, it is back to Firefox. If only Firefox offered the clean, simple look of Chrome!
Goddddddddddddddddd.It’s too complicated to install as compared to mozilla…
This is quite an uninteresting addon, given the fact that after the ad has been loaded, CSS is used to hide it…
no no for me
CSS to block ads is neat but adblock doeesnt even dl the ads, so therefore adblock rules more than this adon. use peerguardian.
Wow, to everyone that is complaining about Firefox being better:
What are you doing on Google Chrome, then? Go back to Firefox, there are better things to do than contradict yourself.
AdBlock extension is better… this one seems to be a’hack’ of sorts and not really integrated into Chrome… feedback welcome as i have no idea to make something like this myself.
im runing windows7 64 bits sys. This adsweeper is awesome!!! i goes youjizz, no popup there., so far so good… i would like testing out on a major ad site, if anyone here knows name of site wit lots of ads. LOL!
The fact that in Firefox I can block any image I wanted and any content I wanted makes it priceless and impossible to throw away.
First of all, I can’t install the programs for Chrome because I don’t have admin rights and the sites are blocked.
Second of all, those programs don’t allow me to select whatever I want to block. Be it an image, a frame or text.
Firefox is still the best, even with its lower speed and freeze times. Maybe they are being payed not to develop their speed because they would put all the other browsers into bankrupcy.
Too bad chrome does not have a standard build in ad blocker. This comes in very handy. Also this tool does not slow down anything, very good!
I think this addon may be harmful to webmasters. For us visitors, most of us still don’t hate ads.
@steven…yeah steven absolutely right.
this is a great ad blocker, to be sure.
though, once i installed it (and a bunch of other extensions at the same time), my browser started to slow to a crawl after a few minutes. mostly google reader (4-10 second lag between clicks), but every other site got a hit as well. had to close and restart chrome a dozen times a day.
finally got around to figuring out the slowdown earlier today and it was all adsweep. disabled it, restarted, and everything since has been cherry. i’m loving chrome again.
so for now i’ve uninstalled this extension and i’m looking forward to a version that doesn’t cause so much slowdown, memory leaking, etc. shame, since adsweep does a better job than adblock or anything else. it’s just… broken.
I couldn’t even download the adsweep for Chrome. There was no place to click for download.
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