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<blockquote data-quote="Windows_Security" data-source="post: 802968" data-attributes="member: 50782">I posted a feature request on AdGuard Forum. <a href="https://forum.adguard.com/index.php?threads/make-adguard-a-lean-mean-advertising-fighting-machine.31179/" target="_blank">Make Adguard a lean mean advertising fighting machine</a>. I attached my personal blocklist I use this together with EasyList Dutch. When you want to use this blocklist of most common ad &amp; tracking networks, do a replace for &quot;google.nl&quot; to &quot;google.XX&quot; where XX is your country&#039;s Top Level Domain (e.g. DE for Germany or JP for Japan). I use StartPage as default search engine (when you don&#039;t use it remove the section which blocks advertisements in Startpage Search Engine Results Page). Reason for using startpage is for privacy and to get a blank new tab page in Chrome (see trick in List of interesting Chrome flags<a href="https://malwaretips.com/threads/list-of-interesting-experimental-flags-for-google-chrome.41686/page-4#post-796893" target="_blank"> thread</a>)Because Adguard&#039;s stealth mode does not block third-party requests as did their experimental extension Stealth Mode, I still use Privacy Possum besides Adguard&#039;s Stealthmode to block ETag-header misuse (see question 2 in AdGuard Forum post). Currently the two of them (Privacy Possum and Adguard&#039;s Stealth Mode)&nbsp; block all common tracking methods without needing any blacklist (because they block obfuscate the tracking mechanisms build in the browser).__ start of rantPost in Adguard forum and this post are the rational why I always post that large block lists in the browser extensions have limited practical use. For blocking malware use the default safe browsing option of your browser. When you want to add a blacklist, use an alternate DNS with malware and malvertising blocking. DNS services have blocklists which are many times larger than default uBlock-malware-blocklist nonsense and have the benefit that DNS blocking does not impact PC-performance.__ end of rant</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Windows_Security, post: 802968, member: 50782"] I posted a feature request on AdGuard Forum. [URL='https://forum.adguard.com/index.php?threads/make-adguard-a-lean-mean-advertising-fighting-machine.31179/']Make Adguard a lean mean advertising fighting machine[/URL]. I attached my personal blocklist I use this together with EasyList Dutch. When you want to use this blocklist of most common ad & tracking networks, do a replace for "google.nl" to "google.XX" where XX is your country's Top Level Domain (e.g. DE for Germany or JP for Japan). I use StartPage as default search engine (when you don't use it remove the section which blocks advertisements in Startpage Search Engine Results Page). Reason for using startpage is for privacy and to get a blank new tab page in Chrome (see trick in List of interesting Chrome flags[URL='https://malwaretips.com/threads/list-of-interesting-experimental-flags-for-google-chrome.41686/page-4#post-796893'] thread[/URL]) Because Adguard's stealth mode does not block third-party requests as did their experimental extension Stealth Mode, I still use Privacy Possum besides Adguard's Stealthmode to block ETag-header misuse (see question 2 in AdGuard Forum post). [I]Currently the two of them (Privacy Possum and Adguard's Stealth Mode) block all common tracking methods without needing any blacklist[/I] (because they block obfuscate the tracking mechanisms build in the browser). [B][B][B][B][B]__[/B][/B][/B][/B][/B] start of rant Post in Adguard forum and this post are the rational why I always post that large block lists in the browser extensions have limited practical use. For blocking malware use the default safe browsing option of your browser. When you want to add a blacklist, use an alternate DNS with malware and malvertising blocking. DNS services have blocklists which are many times larger than default uBlock-malware-blocklist nonsense and have the benefit that DNS blocking does not impact PC-performance. [B][B][B][B][B]__[/B][/B][/B][/B][/B] end of rant [/QUOTE]

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