Adblock Plus

Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 19 years (2008–2026), in 13 threads.

People raised many different problems with Adblock Plus, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 12 complaints

Adblock Plus does not fix some JavaScript annoyances like scrolling behaviour2026-08-06
Keeps forgetting per-site disable settings, so user must re-disable it repeatedly2022-02-13
Had to disable the ad blocker before the whole page would load2020-11-20
Users only hear about the opt-out after already using the software, can't opt out right away2017-12-20
UI changed in version 3.0 and became practically unusable2017-11-14
No good interface to manage blocking per site; impractical for many sites2014-12-17
Hides YouTube link images, so the user can't find the videos2014-08-10
Browser slows down badly because the extension uses lots of memory2014-05-14
Blocked ad iframes leave dead blank areas that users must manually delete via inspect element2013-11-22
Makes many sites very slow and laggy to load and use2013-10-06
Broad blocking rule hides the article's images so the reader cannot see them2011-11-23
Can only turn the whole blocker on or off, or wade through thousands of filters2008-12-17