Poll Best AdBlock Extension that Protects Browser and Web Browsing

[lokamoka820]

Vivaldi is my main browser

If I want to use Vivaldi as my only browser instead of two browsers, what would you recommend as the best option: profiles or workspaces?

 

[Jan Willy]

Offtopic?

 

[Shiz]

Why not regular UBO on brave? I think brave purposely lets you use the non MV3 extensions. I think the limitation is the chrome store if they ever remove it.

 

[LinuxFan58]

What works well on Brave is using Privacy badger as your mild anti-tracker with Brave shields disabled and when you need the anti-adblock muscle just enable Brave shields on standard or aggressive. For people using their private laptop for work (like me) it really is nice combo of compatible adblocking (Privacy Badger has never broken something with my work web services) and brute force adblocking *Brave Shields on aggressive).

@Jan Willy I noticed you new avatar, when I remember right you always had cats, what happened?

 

[Jan Willy]

@Jan Willy I noticed you new avatar, when I remember right you always had cats, what happened?

Haha, no special reason. I just liked the picture.

 

[SpiderWeb]

Wipr 2 for Safari by far. uBO Lite wreaks too much havoc. Wipr 2 is a great set of finely tuned decisions that actually work.

 

[Nunzio_77]

In my opinion Ghostery has been improved a lot and is comparable if not better at blocking tracks than uBlock Origin Lite.

 

[LinuxFan58]

In my opinion Ghostery has been improved a lot and is comparable if not better at blocking tracks than uBlock Origin Lite.

Ghostery is good, but do an Speedometer 3.1 benchmark with uBol and Ghostery (exit browser in between). I know Mr Grohill thinks Speedometer 3.1 is a total waist of time when determing extension effectiveness, but 99% of the W3C community thinks it is a relevant test, so I dar to disagree with his majesty Gorhill (who his both denying but working hard to make uBol a full fletched adblocker),

I used to be in the "less is more" side of the adblocker community, but currently am undecided because flatbuffer indexing and the effectiveness of DNR rules (all Peter Low's 3500 plus ABP rules can be catched in 1 DNR rule), so in my mind Ghostery was a great adblocker which combined the "the less is more" principle with heuristics, the thruth is that technology tends towards the old school "bulk is better" school.

 

[Nunzio_77]

Ghostery is good, but do an Speedometer 3.1 benchmark with uBol and Ghostery (exit browser in between). I know Mr Grohill thinks Speedometer 3.1 is a total waist of time when determing extension effectiveness, but 99% of the W3C community thinks it is a relevant test, so I dar to disagree with his majesty Gorhill (who his both denying but working hard to make uBol a full fletched adblocker),

I used to be in the "less is more" side of the adblocker community, but currently am undecided because flatbuffer indexing and the effectiveness of DNR rules (all Peter Low's 3500 plus ABP rules can be catched in 1 DNR rule), so in my mind Ghostery was a great adblocker which combined the "the less is more" principle with heuristics, the thruth is that technology tends towards the old school "bulk is better" school.

So just to clarify, in your opinion, is uBlockOrigin Lite or Ghostery better?

 

[LinuxFan58]

So just to clarify, in your opinion, is uBlockOrigin Lite or Ghostery better?

they are close, but I would give the edge to uBol based on lower cpu usage

 

[Nunzio_77]

they are close, but I would give the edge to uBol based on lower cpu usage

What about protection against trackers?

 

[7Oz-64]

What about protection against trackers?

I enable this filter in ubol

 

[LinuxFan58]

I have read that Ghostery also applies some sort of heuristics, when that is true Ghostery might have an edge, but ....

When you read the 'read me' explanation of Kees1958 on github, the chances of new trackers to obtain a substantial market share are slim, so I doubt whether it has much real world value.

 

[Jan Willy]

A nice (maybe the best) part of Ghostery is the Never-Consent section. Very effective against cookie consent notices.

 

[Nunzio_77]

Una delle caratteristiche migliori (forse la più apprezzata) di Ghostery è la sezione "Never-Consent". Molto efficace contro le informative sul consenso ai cookie.

For you Ghostery or uBOL?

 

[Jan Willy]

Both extensions are not bad (from time to time I'm experimenting with them) but at this point I'm very conservative and prefer uBO Origin and Adguard (in MS Edge, Firefox and Librewolf). Nevertheless I also use Brave without ad- and tracking extensions. Relevant for me is also DNS filtering (NextDNS or Adguard DNS).

 

[lokamoka820]

I have read that Ghostery also applies some sort of heuristics, when that is true Ghostery might have an edge, but ....

When you read the 'read me' explanation of Kees1958 on github, the chances of new trackers to obtain a substantial market share are slim, so I doubt whether it has much real world value.

This, in my opinion, works best with YouTube ads rather than trackers because YouTube tries to alter the way ads appear to get around ad blockers, but Ghostery blocks them without updating its lists thanks to its AI capabilities.