Into.the.Void.

For the past months Greek AdblockPlus Filter has steadily been growing in subscribers. I recently did a change in the metadata so that clients fetch/check the list every 2 days instead of the default 7, and the daily subscriber count has surpassed 10.000 unique IPs.

The following graph shows this increase over time:

In order to help people contribute to the project I’ve created a repo on github: greek-adblockplus-filter. So now, if you want to help filter out ads from the greek web just get fork the project via git, make your changes and send me a pull request on github 🙂

Filed by kargig at 20:32 under Greek,Internet
Tags: adblock, adblock plus, ads, filter, git, github, Greek
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Greek Adblock Plus filter list has more than 3500 regular unique (as per IP) subscribers daily. The majority of them uses some Mozilla-based browser (Firefox/Iceweasel). An increasing number of users has started using Chrome along with the Chrome Adblock Extension and Opera. Thanks to Panagiotis Dimopoulos, Greek Adblock Plus filter has now been converted to a Tracking Protection List for Internet Explorer 9+.

To load the protection list visit the url: Greek Adblock Tracking Protection List for Internet Explorer 9+

For more details about using Greek Adblock Plus filter on various browsers please visit: Greek Adblock Plus Filter.

Don’t forget to send in comments and URLs to block. If you are using Firefox’s addon, please use the “Report Issue on this page…” feature of it by right clicking on the status icon of adblock.

Filed by kargig at 00:22 under Greek,Internet
Tags: adblock, adblock plus, ads, firefox, Greek, iceweasel, ie, internet explorer, mozilla, tpl, tracking protection list
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Six months after my original post on the creation of Greek Adblock Plus filter, the filter is finally added on the official subscription list thanks to Wladimir Palant.
Apart from Adblock Plus add-on for Firefox/Iceweasel/etc, the filter is also usable by the AdThwart extension for Google Chrome/Chromium

Until today the list peaked at 70 subscribers…I hope this will make more people trust my filter list and reach at least 100 subscribers.

As a sidenote, my RBL for Greek spam has moved to a new, better server thanks to a very kind person who donated it and some people administering mail servers have already added it to their spam filters. Since the original announcement the RBL jumped from 500 reqs/min to 2000 reqs/min.

Filed by kargig at 16:19 under Internet,Networking,Privacy
Tags: adblock, adblockplus, ads, antispam, grrbl, spam
6 Comments | 11,189 views

I’ve decided to start a filter for adblock plus to filter out advertisements from Greek sites.

You can find more information on subscribing to the filter on the page: Greek adblock plus filter.

I started the list a long time ago with some personal filter for sites I visit the most. In order to enrich the list I searched and found a list with the supposedly “top 50” greek sites (regarding traffic), so I visited them and started adding filters to reduce the ads on them.

I warn you though, the filters are a bit strict…and I don’t like flash ads…I really don’t. I hope you like the list.

Please contact me, by email or by commenting on Greek adblock plus filter page to add your own custom filters to the list.

Filed by kargig at 23:46 under Internet
Tags: adblock, adblock plus, ads, filter, firefox, Internet, web
4 Comments | 17,057 views