Ok, I just created a setup file which you can restore from the About page which focus can be said to be "ad blocking":

https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/blob/master/stuff...

I selected the following preset lists:

- hosts-file.net/ad-servers

- someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts

- easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt

Note though that this will work best with the upcoming v 0.9.2.0 which supports almost all net request-based ABP filters (my benchmark on github was updated yesterday for that version).

In the above setup, HTTPSB has been set to work in allow-all/block-exceptionally mode, so nothing is blocked except for what appear in the above files.

Keep in mind that HTTPSB doesn't do element hiding (I see this as a separate extension.)

Thank you for putting in the effort to make this more usable out of the box. I will be all over this once the ability to use these filter lists is easy to access.

I'm with this guy, I don't really want to spend much time filtering/selecting. If I can block 90% of the crap in seconds vs. 99.9% of the crap with several day's investment in customizing the filtering, I'll take 90% please.

Thanks for providing the "adblock-like" preset, that was just what I was looking for. Then from here, if/when I run into particularly horrific js, I can block it one-by-one.