From cbfc1e55747680336687dec88f814e7afe028ce4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Hill Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:16:34 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index bce20602a..6669f1b42 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -6,7 +6,13 @@ See [Wiki](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki) for more information. An efficient blocker for Chromium-based browsers. Fast and lean. Written from scratch. Development through benchmarking. -**µBlock is not an "ad blocker", it's a blocker in the broad sense**, which happens to block ads through its support of [Adblock Plus filters](https://adblockplus.org/en/filters). _EasyList_, _EasyPrivacy_ and _Peter Lowe's Adservers_ list are enabled by default when you install µBlock. Many more lists are readily available to protect yourself from trackers, analytics, data mining, and more ads. +**µBlock is not an "ad blocker", it's a blocker in the broad sense**, which happens to block ads through its support of [Adblock Plus filters](https://adblockplus.org/en/filters). + +_EasyList_, _EasyPrivacy_ and _Peter Lowe's Adservers_ list are enabled by default when you install µBlock. Many more lists are readily available to protect yourself from trackers, analytics, data mining, and more ads. + +In my opinion, ads are just the visible portions of privacy-invading apparatus entering your browser when you visit most sites nowadays. + +My main goal with µBlock is to help users neutralize as much as can be privacy-invading apparatus (of which ads are the visible portion) for users who do not want to deal with more technical means like [HTTP Switchboard](https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard#http-switchboard-for-chromium).

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