HT204416: Get the latest version of Safari for your Mac
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Sep 6, 2015 8:48 AM in response to WZZZby Kurt Lang,Hi WZZZ and pinkstones,
I made that statment based on about three other topics in the past few weeks where Adblock Plus was the cause of a user's ad problem. Removing Adblock Plus solved it. So it wasn't a matter of adware being installed along with Adblock Plus, AP itself was the problem.
But if you're having no issues with it, then carry on.
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Sep 6, 2015 12:20 PM in response to WZZZby Kurt Lang,Given how much search stinks on these forums, I can't find the references. Even online in general, I can't track the software down I'm looking for. Adblock's logo of course looks like this:
Adblock Plus:
But the one I can't find looks like this (I had to create this logo in Photoshop from the first one above):
That's the one that displays adware, while pretending to be a version of Adblock.
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Sep 6, 2015 12:34 PM in response to Kurt Langby WZZZ,Could it be that these people somehow found, or were misdirected to, a phony Adblock Plus? Looks like it:
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=phony+adblock+plus+installs+adware#q=phony +adblock+plus
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Sep 6, 2015 1:20 PM in response to WZZZby Kurt Lang,That would be the very likely answer. In fact, in one of the topics I can't find on these forums, the user linked to the version of Adblock they had installed. That's how I know the icon has a cross in it.
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Sep 6, 2015 2:04 PM in response to Kurt Langby WZZZ,Yeah, looks like the explanation. There was a lot of outrage a while ago about ABP supposedly getting paid off by some advertisers to get put on the "allow some non-intrusive advertising" whitelist. But I really don't care about that because I have that option unchecked.
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Sep 6, 2015 3:38 PM in response to Kurt Langby pinkstones,The Adblock Plus I have installed on Safari is the octagon with ABP in the middle, not the plus sign. I downloaded it through the browser's extensions page.


