How Adblock Plus works in Chrome?
How adblock plus blocks advertisements in the web? I saw it inject some css that hide the advertisement, but I think that he does more than that - for example blocking http request.. They give a brief idea of it here: http://chromeadblock.org/extensions/adblock-for-chrome/ However no real details. I think what they do is, to check css class and id's for badwords, like: advert, ad, sponsored .... Furthermore, they'll have a list of major Ad Servers like AdWords etc. and simply block those IP's / domains from being loaded. Afterwards it seems like it calculates the dimensions of the removed ad