Do you feel browsing snappiness is faster when using AdGuard or uBlock origin?
AdGuard vs uBlock Origin browsing speed?
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uBlock Origin. Didn't measure anything, just my subjective opinion.
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ForgottenSeer 100397
Various factors influence speed. There is no noticeable difference in speed. I use AdGuard for its WebRTC blocking feature.
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ForgottenSeer 97327
Even on my 10 year desktop there is no noticeable difference anymore. When I open 10 websites (most with many ads and trackers) uBO still beats AG with 180 milliseconds. My 10 year old CPU has a benchmark rating which is just below a recent Intel Pentium Gold G7400. So it wil be hard to notice the difference.
I'm sure there is a difference, you just can't see it, and if I can't see it then I don't care.
I voted Adguard Browser Extension becuse actually I use it; but previously I used µBlock Origin and like @Digmor Crusher for me oo the 2 are equal
Is it even possible to test and compare results for this?
Most will vote for their favorite Ad-blocker.
perhaps based on "feeling" of snappiness from the moment you click on a link to the time it starts loading to the time it fully loads
The problem of subjectively judging anything is that if you don't like it from the start or even think you shouldn't like it, because you don't like the company making it, for instance, there is a great chance you'll judge against it. If objective measuring says the difference is in the milliseconds range, then it doesn't have any practical difference you can feel.
uBlock seems lighter, but adguard is more polished, so it really depends on user's settings, like cosmetic filtering, etc.
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Another point I completely forgot to mention in my post is that a difference measured in milliseconds may have many other sources other than the adblocker being tested, from simple internet speed fluctuations to the computer just happening to be devoting a little more processor power to some other background tasks the moment the test was made. So single point test is pointless... You could test it on thousands of web sites with all kinds of content and there would still be a significant error factor due to external reasons.
One advantage I found in Adguard vs uBlock is that it does a better job at preventing annoying popups for newsletter subscriptions.uBlock seems lighter, but adguard is more polished, so it really depends on user's settings, like cosmetic filtering, etc.
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with uBlock I get a popup to subscribe to their newsletter but not with AdGuard
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ForgottenSeer 97327
My point was that when there is only a tenth of a second difference on a PC with 10 year old CPU with a Passmark CPU benchmark of around 6600 (which is less than a recent Pentium Gold) I doubt whether anyone with a PC exceeding the snail speeds of my desktop would ever notice it.
and the 180 milliseconds was the evarage of 10 x 5 runs (in AG-uBO cadence of AG-uBO, uBO-AG, etc)
can you post a screenshot of your filters please?
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ublock works faster for me
I tried both with exact same filters. ublock is compatible with all filters while adguard misreads some filters and makes some websites break
speed:
adguard: sometimes, I saw ad banners and after 0.5 second, they disappeared.
Ublock: This never happens on my laptop -> element hiding/cosmetic filtering of ublock works faster
I tried both with exact same filters. ublock is compatible with all filters while adguard misreads some filters and makes some websites break
speed:
adguard: sometimes, I saw ad banners and after 0.5 second, they disappeared.
Ublock: This never happens on my laptop -> element hiding/cosmetic filtering of ublock works faster
I don't get them either with uBlock.
No “Subscribe” popup window when scrolling to the end of the webpage with Cookies Managed by DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser. If disabled, then it appears. As far as I know, DDGPB doesn’t use any Ad-blocking Lists, except for DuckPlayer to hide YouTube Ads.
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I don't get the popup. Make sure you subscribe the exact same filters in ublock as adguard or it will be unfair to compare
Best answer! Switching from AdGuard to uBlock Origin
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