Ad Blockers

[River]

Which one do you use ?

Curious.

[SenMithrarin85]

since adblock plus sold its soul, i use ublock origin

[River]

I use AdGuard.


Yes I know it cost money but I got it really cheap on sale during holiday and it is system wide not just in my browser.

So works on gaming servers too that have ads. No offense to server owners

[Omega]

Ublock Origin because it is an open source community project.

And a Pihole for all the non-browser stuff.

[River]

Omega a écrit :

Ublock Origin because it is an open source community project.

And a Pihole for all the non-browser stuff.

I tried ublock origin. I like it though wanted something a little easier with advanced features. I am not sure if I want to use two different programs per say for ad blocking.

[Omega]

gamer a écrit :

Omega a écrit :

Ublock Origin because it is an open source community project.

And a Pihole for all the non-browser stuff.

I tried ublock origin. I like it though wanted something a little easier with advanced features. I am not sure if I want to use two different programs per say for ad blocking.

The Pihole is passive, it does blocking at DNS level, any machine which connects to my network automatically uses it for DNS.

[River]

Omega a écrit :

gamer a écrit :

I tried ublock origin. I like it though wanted something a little easier with advanced features. I am not sure if I want to use two different programs per say for ad blocking.

The Pihole is passive, it does blocking at DNS level, any machine which connects to my network automatically uses it for DNS.

Cool.

How well does Pihole block ad spaces that are left on a webpage/website ?

[Omega]

gamer a écrit :

Omega a écrit :

The Pihole is passive, it does blocking at DNS level, any machine which connects to my network automatically uses it for DNS.

Cool.

How well does Pihole block ad spaces that are left on a webpage/website ?

It blocks them as long as they originate from a known ad-domain.

For example the ads on YouTube it does not block for they originate from youtube.com itself.

The ads on other websites utilizing services such as Google Adsense are blocked.

[Heitor Villa-Lobos]

Privacy Redirect extension changes the front of most services that would serve me ads, like that Tube thingy.

For the rest of my usage, I use mostly FLOSS, which doesn't usually have ads. I also surf a lot of .org and .gov websites, which don't have many ads, and when they do its like "donate to humanitarian aid somewhere".

I guess I get some annoying ads when reading news articles, but I ignore them. I'd rather have them than required login or some like that. Also, because of other anti-tracking measures, they are usually very generic.

[lailaamell]

Adblock stopped working for me on chrome so i switched to opera wich got an built in 1 wich does work

[Heitor Villa-Lobos]

lailaamell95 a écrit :

Adblock stopped working for me on chrome so i switched to opera wich got an built in 1 wich does work

Chrome started blocking most AdBlockers.

Chrome is the far worst browser around, these days. Any other Chromium based browser, like Vivaldi, is much more efficient.

Still, I preffer Firefox based browsers.

[lailaamell]

Heitor Villa-Lobos a écrit :

lailaamell95 a écrit :

Adblock stopped working for me on chrome so i switched to opera wich got an built in 1 wich does work

Chrome started blocking most AdBlockers.

Chrome is the far worst browser around, these days. Any other Chromium based browser, like Vivaldi, is much more efficient.

Still, I preffer Firefox based browsers.

Yeah the blocking of adblock was final straw i rather use operagx wich works great. What google did is not good it just helps scammers find gullable victims wich adblockers would been able to protect

[Nerd_1991]

Ublock Origin because it should be the most aggresive one.

[Supafly]

I use the Noscript addon on Firefox. Blocks every single script including the sites own scripts. Does require figuring out what scripts are required for a site to work correctly so you can grant permission permanently or temporary.

Do admit it can get frustrating getting a site to run correctly at times.

Shocking how many sites you can't login on without the Google.com script being allowed.

[Lord Flashheart]

gamer a écrit :

Which one do you use ?

Curious.

ublock origin in the browser, specifically firefox.
For network wide ad ablocking, use adguard as a community plugin in the router. (opnsense)

[Xanya]

been using Ublock Origin for years