# Adblock Plus

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Adblock Plus and 10 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Works well out of the box for common ads and is free, though critics say its acceptable ads policy means it doesn't reliably block everything.

## Why people recommend it

- Works fine on most ads (2 comments): "For everything else AdBlock Plus works fine." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184134)) "ABP works for the most common of these too" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194587))

## What people warn about

- Acceptable ads policy lets advertisers in (4 comments): "It was basically the standard until they started allowing advertisers to pay to not have their ads blocked." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496807)) ""acceptable ads" policy is what caused the shift from AdBlock Plus to uBlock Origin" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321898)) "ABP was dead the moment they sold out to "responsible" ads." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687848))
- Doesn't reliably block all ads (2 comments): "abp is not to be trusted to reliably block all ads it could" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687916)) "abp in firefox doesn't really remove them" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687477))
- Breaks some sites and videos (2 comments): "And AdBlock Plus interferes with it, so I have to pause blocking to even see the human check dealio." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039887)) "abp stopped playing videos for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46056647))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [uBlock Origin](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ublock-origin.md): 765 recommend
- [uBlock Origin Lite](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ublock-origin-lite.md): 148 recommend
- [AdGuard](https://hackerapproved.com/p/adguard.md): 78 recommend
- [Wipr 2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wipr.md): 41 recommend
- [uBlock](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ublock.md): 32 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Adblock Plus", https://hackerapproved.com/p/adblock-plus/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).