ADBLOCK PLUS HOW TO WHITELIST A WEBSITE DOWNLOAD

Many of the domains in the list also no longer seem to exist. Why such a low ratio? Most of the domains I tried this on either did not accept the curl command or just timed out, so it’s not a complete list. The results? Out of 124,735 domains, only about 158 had an X-Adblock-Key. So using a simple shell script, I ran the command on every entry in the list of over 120,000 ad domains.

ADBLOCK PLUS HOW TO WHITELIST A WEBSITE DOWNLOAD

The curl command is used to download content from Websites and using the -I option returns just the header information from the page.

X-Adblock-Key: MFwwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADSwAwSAJBAKrfIMFkSaoTSqKmC+BrghK0CpDHc0MuVzmMHin8LIORhpXbped+iYhSnZurWnEO0zcKcVIrzp026LVc5pMB9bUCAwEAAQ=_QhadOD7373K/lmQhz圓NfiEz+luzgToqtfD34RHvdJeiZlHeWUdiNJkLTn7q6NpYtFurMWYji7wXCCOpU/fUow=Ĭontent-Type: text/html charset=UTF-8 How Does The Command Work? Look for the X-Adblock-Key: entry (highlighted below) followed by a long string of characters, which is presumably unique to the domain. Just replace ads.com with the domain you want to check. You just need to run a simple Terminal command to see if the site has it: curl -I ads.com How To Checkįrom what I can tell, sites use a special IP header to bypass the browser plugin. The posts are a bit old, so it’s possible AdBlock Plus doesn’t even use this method anymore. I cannot verify those posts and I am definitely not an expert in the subject, but there are clues out there to support these claims This post is just my personal findings so you can come to your own conclusions. However, it seems there is also a private list of Websites that pay to be whitelisted. AdBlock Plus has a public whitelist, which is considered to be “non-intrusive” or “acceptable” advertising.

Adblock plus how to whitelist a website