Question Is uBlock Origin or Ghostery better for privacy?

[lokamoka820]

From uBlock Origin GitHub page:

Do NOT use uBO with any other content blocker. uBO performs as well as or better than most popular blockers. Other blockers can prevent uBO's privacy or anti-blocker-defusing features from working correctly.

GitHub - gorhill/uBlock: uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. - gorhill/uBlock

github.com

 

[Sammo]

I use both

From uBlock Origin GitHub page:

GitHub - gorhill/uBlock: uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. - gorhill/uBlock

github.com

uBlock and Ghostery work well together

 

[Jan Willy]

Very interesting... So Ghostery is better than ABP... And compared to uBlock Origin?

Kees1958 was asked: what browser extension will you use when the change to MV3 rollout. So uBO MV2 wasn't an option. Besides that he hasn't the possibility to choose uBO Lite. Nevertheless I can imagine that uBO Lite doesn't exceed other MV3 extensions.

 

[Jan Willy]

I use both

uBlock and Ghostery work well together

Raymond Hill (uBO's developer) nuanced (6 years ago) the use of uBO alongside another adblocker:

If one uses two adblockers of course it's pointless to use same filterlists.

 

[Moonhorse]

Using two adblockers will cause some overlapping and some filters may not work correctly. As gorhill stated its still relevant today

 

[Nevi]

I use Ghostery on my Macbook, and uBlock origin on my Windows machine. When I test them both on ad block test toolz, I get almost same result. 99%. To me it seems they both have excellent ad blocking. Just my 3 cent.

 

[Sammo]

Using two adblockers will cause some overlapping and some filters may not work correctly. As gorhill stated its still relevant today

That's what it takes to fully block some ads. I find that using one or the other still allows stuff to get through. With both the same ads are blocked.