Poll How many personal rules do you use in your adblocker?

How many personal rules do you use in your adblocker?

  • 0

    Votes: 15 57.7%

  • 1 - 40

    Votes: 8 30.8%

  • 41 - 60

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 61 - 100

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Over 100 rules

    Votes: 3 11.5%
  • Total voters
    26
I use the following extensions, but I don't use them together.
I believe using just one is sufficient to avoid redundancy and conflicts between them, so using one is sufficient.
I'm currently testing Ghostery in Chrome, because I'm waiting for the next version (10.5.43) to see if they've definitively fixed the slow startup time when opening Chrome.
If this continues to cause problems, I'll switch back to UBOL.

I don't use personal lists in either configuration, but the existing ones can be enabled in both, and the filtering is very satisfactory, even in YouTube videos.
 
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Nunzio_77 said:
I'm currently testing Ghostery in Chrome, because I'm waiting for the next version (10.5.43) to see if they've definitively fixed the slow startup time when opening Chrome.
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I'm currently using Ghostery in Edge; no startup delay, almost equal to uBOL.
Efficiency-wise, it is equal to Brave adblocker, with the advantage of bypassing website detection by turning off for such a website (for Brave adblocker, it is still detected as both adblocker turned on and as an unsupported browser, even after turning off the shields for such a website).

Ghostery is promising.
 
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Parkinsond said:
I'm currently using Ghostery in Edge; no startup delay, almost equal to uBOL.
Efficiency-wise, it is equal to Brave adblocker, with the advantage of bypassing website detection by turning off for such a website (for Brave adblocker, it is still detected as both adblocker turned on and as an unsupported browser, even after turning off the shields for such a website).

Ghostery is promising.
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Yes, I agree with you that Ghostery is promising.
Currently, in Chrome (with the V3 limitation), it's perhaps the only one that updates lists in real time without waiting for the new version, which is released weekly with bug fixes, new features, and improved performance.
Even in Firefox, there's no slowdown when opening the browser. This slowdown has only been observed in Chrome, but as Ghithub informed me, this issue should be resolved with the next release (10.5.43), which I believe should be released tomorrow.
I'd be interested in hearing other opinions on Ghostery and its use.
 
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devjitdutta2025 said:
Does the AG extension slow down browsing on edge compared to ghostery or ublock origin? Ublock origin & ghostery both are unable to block ads in YouTube on edge, at least on my PC. (I use Cloudflare WARP by the way)
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Compared to Ghostery and uBlock Origin, AdGuard is generally heavier. Regarding YouTube ad blocking, I'll assume you're talking about uBlock Origin Light. Did you activate the complete mode in the settings? This should stop YouTube ads.
 
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lokamoka820 said:
Compared to Ghostery and uBlock Origin, AdGuard is generally heavier. Regarding YouTube ad blocking, I'll assume you're talking about uBlock Origin Light. Did you activate the complete mode in the settings? This should stop YouTube ads.
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uBOL and Ghostery block ads effeciently on YT; the superiority of uBOL comapred to Ghostery concers few media piracy websites loaded with malvertisement and scripts.
 
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Update: in Brave 177 custom rules (60% cosmetic & 40% domains) all website specific, so at least 20 domain/URLrules could be aggregrated (using $domain=A|B|C).

Reason I make all those rules website specific is that AdGuard in standard mode, does not block first party (althoug they block some first party with a Brave curated filter). When AG makes such a point (and difference) of standard (only curated 1p) and aggressive ad blocking (using EesyList and uBlock assets with 1P blocking), I guessed it might helpt to lower website breakage (and in the same time increase performance), to explicitey tag rules to domains (only for my bookmarked websites).
 
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Nunzio_77 said:
Simply add Bitdefender's Traffic Light extension and you'll be protected from malicious or phishing sites.
Right or wrong?
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Probably.
Although none of these extensions with similar purposes will ever provide 100% protection.

That is, assuming such protection is even necessary.

The problem is that if you keep adding one extension on top of another to do what the first, second, and third ones don’t do, you’ll eventually end up with too many extensions installed.;)
 
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The question is how fast extensions and filterlists react on recent malware threats. The router and the AV program (network protection) offer the first and best defense.
If you want to do something extra, do it on DNS level and don't stress your browser(s).
On DNS level some Hagezi filterlists are a good choice.
 
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Jan Willy said:
The question is how fast extensions and filterlists react on recent malware threats. The router and the AV program (network protection) offer the first and best defense.
If you want to do something extra, do it on DNS level and don't stress your browser(s).
On DNS level some Hagezi filterlists are a good choice.
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Agree, completely (with the question) That is why Alpha Mountain AI (used in Osprey Browser Protection) and heuristics of MalwareBytes Browser Guard are so interesting, see example (DUTCH Heuristics: een riskant patroon = ENGLISH Heuristics: a risky pattern)

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LinuxFan58 said:
Agree, completely (with the question) That is why Alpha Mountain AI (used in Osprey Browser Protection) and heuristics of MalwareBytes Browser Guard are so interesting, see example (DUTCH Heuristics: een riskant patroon = ENGLISH Heuristics: a risky pattern)

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MalwareBytes Browser Guard isnt't very good on this test..

 
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