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No 1; it is owned by Ghostery; how to guarantee consistency of results against rivals?View my post:
Hot Take - Evaluate your content blocker with Ad Block Tester
When I look at the logger of uBlockOrigin, I see no scripts running, while the result page tells me ads.js, pagead.js and partner.ads.js are running, so I would not waist any energy in trying to get a better score
It's not my goal to promote Ghostery. It's about their list of tracking sites (that's not the filterlist in their app!). Those sites represent the real world trackers. So a nice benchmark for the effectiveness of extensions and filterlists.
I do not need trackers blocking; Edge has built-in tracking blocking; I need ad-blocking.
- As mentioned above, most ad test sites are not worth bothering with ... (for me Ublock Origin on Wolf sorts it for me)
I will stick with uBO lite, not because it scored the hightest, but because it is the lightest of.I find if I see no ads on sites or infrequent ones, ads are being blocked if I see ads they are not
So in terms of privacy (which is what I care about most besides ad blocking) is Ghostery or Ublock Origin Lite better?
There aren't any. Your best bet is testing based on your web surfing style. The most effective and powerful ad blocking extension is µBO in hard or medium mode. No others compare in functionality or performance.
Edge only blocks trackers based on the Disconnect tracker lists, which means it is limited in the actual number of blocked trackers.
Using Vivaldi adblocker for blocking ads and trackers currently; Edge is abandoned.
But you know what? You're right. The way things are going, it's getting harder and harder to use extensions every day. Although there are many reliable extensions, they can also be compromised. I recently had an experience with an extension that had malware, and I didn't even know it. EDGE warned me with a pop-up that an extension had malware, and I removed it immediately, even though it was disabled, knowing what it was collecting or doing in my browser. I didn't even mention it here on MT. I'm not going to say the name because it's active in other stores. The worst part is that it was well known, it's still active in the Edge and Firefox stores, and the developer's website is active, as is the GitHub repository, but it was removed from the Chrome Web Store. I believe it was compromised from the Chrome Web Store, altered or injected with something malicious in its source code, and from what I researched in other Mozilla and Edge stores, these extensions are clean. Now I ask, how can we trust an extension? It became difficult after that. I recommend using as few as possible, use Brave or Vivaldi because of the adblock, and if you can, don't use any extensions in your browser, even better. Thankfully, I don't have much important stuff on my computer. It's like a member here at MT said, the less stuff you have, the smaller the attack vector will be. But there's a warning and a tip for those who use a lot of extensions. Be very careful when using extensions.
I never had an encounter with a malicious extension before; however, I do find using browser without extensions decreases the attack surface area.
Actually AG extension is better the uBO, and the same applies to the mv3 versions; the only thing hindering using AG is its high RAM usage, and to some extent CPU load, compared to uBO.Used AdGuard for Windows again for a couple of weeks or so after a hiatus & quite happy again, on the test sites I don't care for much I got a 1,000,000% so pretty good
AG is very good, sometimes even better because it blocks not only ads but a lot of things, like trackers those annoyances and many more things, and it's also light and doesn't consume a lot of ram.
I also have AdGuard desktop, I bought the lifetime license for 3 devices and there is only 1 device installed on my smartphone, even so I don't use it, because it starts blocking things in apps and stops working, you have to keep adding it to the whitelist and it drains the battery faster. I even used AdGuard desktop on the Windows 10 partition that was on my hard drive, but I felt that browsing was slow, I assume it's because of the certificate it installs to block ads over https connections, I don't like many products that deal with certificates. The only product I still leave on is K, but even then I have a niggle behind my ear, to be honest I don't like it. As for AG, one day I'll end up using the desktop version and just stick with it. I bought it now and I need to use it.Used AdGuard for Windows again for a couple of weeks or so after a hiatus & quite happy again, on the test sites I don't care for much I got a 1,000,000% so pretty good
I hope you never have problems with malicious extensions. As you are cautious and are not using any extensions and when use is minimal, I believe you will never have problems. The tip you gave me Vivaldi was the best I've received this year about the browser. I thought it was slow on HD, it's not, it's light and loads pages quickly. Seriously, I didn't give a damn about Vivaldi, but that day I went to test it on YT and it worked fine. Then you tell me which filters you need to add and which are reliable, if necessary of course. I use it in strict mode and it blocks YT ads.
I use the default lists by Vivaldi, in addition to AG base and annoyances filters for adblocking and AG tracking filter for trackers; I have got them from here: AdGuard filters | AdGuard Knowledge Base
