Since my question in the discount section was not answered:


"Re AdGuard: Since it's by subscription, can anybody confirm that it allows for viewing/browsing main "newspaper" and other propaganda sites which systematically leave you out if you use the usual adblocker (e.g. Adblock, Adblock Plus), and if so, which ones (and understood of course that you do NOT make an "exception")?

If there is some link to something potentially important, I open it then in Edge instead of FF, but I don't browse such sites anymore.

If the above is not the case, why is AdGuard so well regarded her in this forum? Since Adblock Plus works fine, too, for the sites remaining for me. Is it just because of "for once, the developer gets paid!"? Well, Adblock Plus's one gets paid, too - some call that extortion, but he wins the actions against him, up to now.

So I would really be interested in some pertinent information, and ideally along the lines, "is not blocked by adblocker-blocking sites, for most of them.""


So, what the heck with a paid / subscription ad-blocker, since the others work well, except for being detected by more and more sites?


Or in other words, yes, a non-(frequently) detectable ad-blocker would be worth its money again!

But then, why is that so difficult, since even with the usual ad-blockers of today, the whole crap is downloaded to your system first, THEN only your ad-blocker begins it discarding work?

EDIT OF THE ABOVE:

matchtext
wanted(text) (which is not included in the match)
notwanted(text) (which is not included in the match)


BETTER:

You have your:

- matchstring
i.e. the string (IF it matches of course, and that's to be checked first by the regex engine), to be declared a match IF the lookbehing/lookahead condition(s) IS/are met resp. NOT met

- wantedstring(s)
i.e. the string(s) (which are not included in the match)  and which MUST be there (i.e. before resp. after the matchstring), in order to declare the (matching) matchstring a match

- unwantedstring(s)
i.e. as before but if these strings are matched there, your (originally matching) matchstring match is declared UN-successful by the regex engine (i.e. the unwantedstring "must not" be there, in the sense of "is not allowed to be there"; I insist on this fact since in some other languages, "must not" is synonym for "may be there or not, "is optional", and that's NOT the case here)

Also, let's remind of the fact that there can be, in case, a negative or positive lookbehind, and ALSO a negative or positive lookahead, if the regex engine in question doesn't stumble upon such combinations; and that of course, the 3 different strings have nothing to do with each other: the engine
- tries to match the matchstring
- if that's successful, it tries to match the lookbehind
- if that's successful AND does not discard the match (ie in case of a negative lookbehind), it tries to match the lookahead
- if successful (and does not discard the match (ie in case of a negative lookahead), the match is deemed successful, and that'll ONLY be the matchstring then (and that's the reason why the lookbehind/lookahead parentheses () are NOT counted as elements for replacements then: After having served for validating or invalidating the matchstring match, they go back into oblivion, as far as regex is concerned.

I'm insisting on these facts since, in view of lookbehinds/lookaheads being extremely simple, the obvious difficulty people have with them must lie with misconceptions they could have, around them.

/END OF EDIT



EDIT: "!" is the logical "not", so it's logical that this character is used in negative lookarounds; the "?", in regex in general, stands for "0 or 1 (!) occurrences of the preceding (!) element"; for distinguishing simple linebreaks from double / multiple ones, you'll use a complete lookaround, e.g. in "replace (?<!\n)\n(?!\n) by \n\n" which would only replace the single ones by two, but would not multiply the double or multiple ones; this is of interest e.g. for normalizing web downloads where the title for the next paragraph often clings to the previous one; of course you could implement an additional condition of a max line length, in order for that single \n to be (matched >) changed within that given line character number limit, in order for the code not to affect (most) regular sub-paragraph breaks within regular, broader paragraphs of the source material.

(EDIT: Don't forget the lookbehind-"<": it's necessary since in real life, there often would be other string parts, even before the lookbehind, needing disambiguation.)

Make your (in case cheap, quality-wise) software cheap for some hours/days (Black-Friday, Silver-Monday or whatever they call it...), in order to get a paid trial (quick-n-dirty buys), at the very least, or even a new, loyal customer (if it's really good).

(spin-off of page of: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=46695 )


"Which is why I don't go for that kind of crap at all anymore.":

You mean the procedure, not necessarily the product(s) as such. - partly d'accord.

But then, it's also the "new customer syndrome", which is a sort of a paid trial: Often, you're not entirely sure you will have made the correct decision, in spite of some trialing (lack of time on your side, too, and especially lack of investment on your side, re time to thoroughfully put that piece of software to test), so the discount can be sort of an assurance against your not having decided optimally - cf. SyncBack buyers not having grasped in time they cannot do optimized backups with that: So their disturbance of piece of mind is lesser, afterwards, when they discover the ugly truth.

So this is even a little bit difference with gas, power or telephone contract users, since over there, all providers (who get new customers by such means) are similarly bad, with their call centres in - is it politically correct to name it?: - Mumbai.

Fact is, if some electronic goods are really good and helpful, you pay a lot more over time, even without subscriptions - IF, I said! -, and this then quite diminishes your initial savings - but which prove very beneficial for learning to identify the really pertinent criteria, for then buying smarter (and full price).