- Mar 29, 2018
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Updated AVG Free to Hardened Mode | File & Behavior Shields only due to slow web surfing.
Nice. I think I should clarify why I prefer Adguard on Chromium browsers.Switched µBO to Adguard in Chrome/Edge after the mention by @SeriousHoax.
Thanks! for the tip, I had noticed that in Adguard that the updates were more frequent than uBO. Thanks for sharingAdguard is better at cosmetic filtering, and they fix any reported issues much quickly. Most of them within 24 hours while on EasyList I have months old unfixed issues. Some filters written in Adguard syntax are not supported by uBO. Adgaurd can block Facebook sponsored posts on Facebook, but most of the time can't do it in Firefox. I knew the reason behind it, but forgot.
Some filters written in Adguard syntax are not supported by uBO.
Agree. Gorhill is a genius. Huge respect to him.That said: it was a miracle how a one man operation managed to beat larger development teams for such a long time (ghostery, disconnect, ABP, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi).
I'm aware of this. I was mainly talking about things like Adguard specific scriptlets which doesn't work in uBO. Adguard can auto click on cookie notices for us which is something Gorhill considers a security risk, so uBO will never have them according to him. Adguard also use things like these for other cosmetic filtering.AG has developed filterlists especially for uBO. No need to switch to AG extension.
msn.com#%#AG_onLoad(function(){if(window.location.href.includes("/en-xl/")){var g=new MutationObserver(function(){var b=document.querySelector('button[id^="continue-reading"]');b&&b.click();});g.observe(document,{childList:!0,subtree:!0});setTimeout(function(){g.disconnect()},1E4)}});
AG also has Stealth Mode, especially 'Hide referers', so it's 6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other between AG and µBO.I think I should clarify why I prefer Adguard on Chromium browsers.
What happened? No problem here (replaced Avast Free with AVG Free using all shields), because Avast Free will probably be moving to Avast One, I thought it made sense that new AVG Free is moving to Avast old free.Back to Windows Security only.
After uninstalling AVG Firewall, I uninstalled AVG completely because it completely borked Windows Security. Problems like this are a big "No no" for me.
I don't remember if I silenced alerts. I don't think so.I noticed when you silence Avast, after an update of Avast, the ms Defender icon is missing. Allowing notifications once with a reboot solves the problem.
I’d love to be using Cloudflare but that leaves ads and trackers to be blocked locally which in most cases slows down browsing to a degree. So the speed up from the faster DNS is cancelled and you waste battery and cpu time as well. So I’ve settled for NextDNS… why can’t we just have it all ever…Changed DNS to https://security.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query . I hadn't used it in a long time. It's much faster for me than Quad9 or NextDNS.
I use very few filter lists in µBO and Firefox is very fast.I’d love to be using Cloudflare but that leaves ads and trackers to be blocked locally which in most cases slows down browsing to a degree.
It is, on Windows it’s my favourite (on Mac unfortunately uBo had its development suspended). But still, it’s one task that will be done locally instead of on a DNS level… I’m a bit paranoid on performanceI use very few filter lists in µBO and Firefox is very fast.