I use "Adblock Edge" as an alternative. It's basically a fork of adblock plus but without the "acceptable ads" feature.

I never appreciated the difference or history of the Adblock and Adblock Plus plugins. I'm currently removing ABP from all my desktops and laptops in favour of Adblock Edge. Thanks.

To Adblock? I use a system level HTTP proxy (Glimmerblocker [1] on OS X, Privoxy elsewhere [2]) because I don't want to encounter ads in e.g. my RSS reader.

To an advertising-based business model? Unclear.

[1] http://glimmerblocker.org [2] http://www.privoxy.org

MVP hosts file blocks ads on Windows machines by editing the hosts file. No 3rd party software needed. http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

Seems like it should work on other OSs too, actually. Thanks for the link.

The problem / article is about ADBLOCK PLUS - not with the normal Adblock. Two different beasts.