Question AdGuard vs uBlock Origin browsing speed?

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Which extension gives you snappier website browsing?


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can you please share your settings file
PS: What is EasyList (Optimized) how does that differ from the regular EasyList?
 
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I may have commented this a few weeks ago on another thread, but on Chromium Browsers I found no difference in speed between uBO & Adguard. Adguard used to be slower before version 4 but at the moment both performs exactlty the same in terms of web page loading. uBO is still lighter in CPU & Ram usage.
On Firefox, I found uBO to be faster. I measured via the dev tools of browser.
I use Adguard in Chrome because its Annoyance filter works better with it. Once uBO start supporting all sciptlets I might switch to uBO again.
 
can you please share your settings file
PS: What is EasyList (Optimized) how does that differ from the regular EasyList?

The optimized versions are made by Adguard based on ad filters usage statistics they collected. The objective was to optimize existing filters and clean up redundant rules.
The result is (at least to me) a clean set of rules, with almost no errors. According to Adguard, “optimized” filters memory usage is almost 40% lower than regular filters. Less is more! I don't like to use too many filters.

These are the URLs you need if you want to try some of the most important optimized filters:

 
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+1 My vote goes to uBlock Origin, Adguard's annoyance rules outperform uBlock Origin, in terms of comparative speed between Adguard and uBlock on my computer they are unnoticeable. More for simplicity and for consuming less CPU and less ram memory I will stick with uBlock Origin. ;)
 
One advantage I found in Adguard vs uBlock is that it does a better job at preventing annoying popups for newsletter subscriptions.

Example, try visiting: Downloads | AIDA64

with uBlock I get a popup to subscribe to their newsletter but not with AdGuard
I tested Adguard and the subscription popup was there. So staying with uBlock Origin.
 
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One advantage I found in Adguard vs uBlock is that it does a better job at preventing annoying popups for newsletter subscriptions.
Is that what you are saying about the newsletter? Yes the uBlock Origin blocks everything up to the cookies consent, I've never seen that, I had to literally turn everything off, even my DNS because it didn't show that pop-up. (y)
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One advantage I found in Adguard vs uBlock is that it does a better job at preventing annoying popups for newsletter subscriptions.

Example, try visiting: Downloads | AIDA64

with uBlock I get a popup to subscribe to their newsletter but not with AdGuard

It's a matter of choosing the right filter list, regardless of your ad/tracker blocking extension. For instance:

Edit: I just experienced that this list doesn't block the popup on the AIDA64 site. Fanboy's Annoyances optimized does.
 
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Is that what you are saying about the newsletter? Yes the uBlock Origin blocks everything up to the cookies consent, I've never seen that, I had to literally turn everything off, even my DNS because it didn't show that pop-up. (y)
can you post a screenshot of your uBlock Origin filters list?
 
Trying out the optimized filters for AG base and tracking to see if any benefit in a small reduction in the total number of filters. They appear to work OK as am not seeing ads and the AG logger is showing the blocks, but the stats (total since install) shows zero trackers blocked.
Am guessing just a small bug in AG?
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