Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] SpyBlock should be a separate addon - ERRATA

[David Englund]

On 2015-03-11 20:58, alexus / dotcommon wrote:
> On 2015-03-11 19:50, alexus / dotcommon wrote:
> > On 2015-03-10 09:18, David Englund wrote:
> > > SpyBlock is a Adblock Plus fork customized for, and inbuilt, in IceCat
> > > by my judgement of reading
> > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2014-10/msg00013.html
> > >
> > > Read the AdBlock Plus
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversy_over_ad_filtering_and_ad_whitelisting 
> > >
> > > to understand that SpyBlock need to be developed as a separate addon
> > > so those who use other web browsers than IceCat can use it.
> >
> > There is also a without-whitelist fork of Adblock Plus, named
> > HackTheWeb (free software using the modified BSD license):
> > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hack-the-web/
> >
> > Not sure about the customizations used with the SpyBlock releases
> > included with IceCat are different respect to HackTheWeb.
>
>
> Please, excuse me...
>
> I mean Adblock Edge (not to HackTheWeb):
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
>
> Regards

Yes, SpyBlock should be based on Adblock Edge. It makes it clear that 
the white list are removed as Adblock Edge is quite popular for that reason.