Addblock only changes what you see. It does not prevent the websites from getting your information. While it is less annoying the the ads I don't want sites profiling me.
I believe there are settings in Chrome to prevent sites from retrieving your data. I'll take a look and get back to you.
UPDATE: This may or may not be what you're looking for, but try this:
Go to your Chrome menu (three stacked bars on the top right) and select "Settings"
Click "Show Advanced Settings"
Scroll down to "Privacy". There are a couple of things you can change here, but the main settings are inside "Content Settings..."
It will help, at the very least. I haven't had a problem with it since I changed my settings. No personalized ads, and then I installed adblock to block the regular ads that showed up.
One thing to keep in mind tho, this site and many others, that some of us have, rely on google adsense to help pay the running costs. I have mixed feelings about leaving google, on the one i hate the kind of thing 3V0 mentions, on the other i derive income from it!!
Rock and Hard place for me
The only new "power" I have is to clean up spam. Nothing more.
I am as surprised as anyone else that I was asked to moderate, but again, this is only a temporary position. I'll be rotated out in a while and a new set of moderators will be added, as discussed before.
And for the record, I'd already left, I came back just for the rule change thread.
Carefull what you say Matt, I knew a guy who had a bit of wisdom which went:
"There is nothing more permanent than something which start as temporary!"