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I deleted subscriptions in my adblocker plus, now it's not working at all?

oathtoorder
oathtoorder
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I was watching a video last night, and I ended up accidentally blocking my video from playing because I told adblocker to block it. I went to my subscriptions thinking if I deleted the two subscriptions I had, it would make the video come back up again. Well, instead of playing the video, adblocker is not blocking popups at all. Ads are coming up on every website I'm on. I tried deleting adblocker and re-adding it, but nothing changes. Is there any way I can fix this?

I was watching a video last night, and I ended up accidentally blocking my video from playing because I told adblocker to block it. I went to my subscriptions thinking if I deleted the two subscriptions I had, it would make the video come back up again. Well, instead of playing the video, adblocker is not blocking popups at all. Ads are coming up on every website I'm on. I tried deleting adblocker and re-adding it, but nothing changes. Is there any way I can fix this?

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Adblock Plus does nothing without "filters" being installed or created by the user manually. Those subscriptions provided the "filters". By deleting those 2 subscriptions you rendered ABP ineffective. https://adblockplus.org/en/about#workings https://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions

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FredMcD
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All of your Abode software is out of date. Security Issue: Update your Flash Player v16.0.0.296
https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html

Type about:addons<Enter> in the address bar to open your Add-ons Manager. Hot key; <Control>(Mac:<Command>)<Shift> A)

Select Extensions, locate the adblock add-on, and remove it. Restart Firefox. Now reinstall adblock from Adblock Plus {web link} Blocks annoying video ads on YouTube, Facebook ads, banners and much more. Adblock Plus blocks all annoying ads, and supports websites by not blocking unobtrusive ads by default (configurable).

the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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Adblock Plus does nothing without "filters" being installed or created by the user manually. Those subscriptions provided the "filters". By deleting those 2 subscriptions you rendered ABP ineffective. https://adblockplus.org/en/about#workings https://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions

oathtoorder
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the-edmeister said

Adblock Plus does nothing without "filters" being installed or created by the user manually. Those subscriptions provided the "filters". By deleting those 2 subscriptions you rendered ABP ineffective. https://adblockplus.org/en/about#workings https://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions

Thank you so much. I just had to add a few subscriptions and it worked.