Battle What Ad-Blocker/Tracking Protection Do You Use?

[Chromatinfish 123]

Please vote in the poll above for your best choices. I, personally, use AdMuncher and Disconnect- but have tried all of the choices below.

Adblock Plus is the most well-known adblocker in the world... AdGuard has popped up recently and is making MAJOR strides in their work... and they listen. A few months back, I suggested on the forums, a more comprehensive WOT integration, and they replied saying it was a good idea but they were not sure if they could do it. To my surprise, in v.5.10, they actually included my idea!

AdMuncher is on my system only because my AdGuard license expired and I needed a free alternative... it's light and working nice with some tweaks, but not the full experience with AdGuard.

 

[Anupam]

I use Emsisoft Antimalware.

I have enabled Privacy Protection in that plus I have the list of Ad Domain/ Tracking domain to the sites I visit. So I have blocked those using Emsisoft's Surf Protection.

So after this I do not receive any Ads
Also I use Firefox most of the times with Third Party Cookies Disabled.

So no extra software, so extra resource waste

Also it has more protection. Because it will work for all programs not only the browsers. You can't even ping those Ad/Tracking domains

 

[frogboy]

AdblockPlus and Blur for me. I might give AdGaurd another go and see what it is all about.

 

[Anupam]

AdblockPlus and Blur for me. I might give AdGaurd another go and see what it is all about.

Adguard is awesome . Serach the giveaway page and you might get 6 months free. I used that and much much better than any Browser Addons.

 

[jamescv7]

Personally pick two: Adguard and Adblock Plus due to their pretty much effective adblocker all time, and satisfies at all around.

Tested other tools before but seems these two contenders cannot leave easily on most PC.

 

[illumination]

Adblock Plus and Noscript pretty much take care of all my needs

 

[darko999]

I use BluHell Firewall extension on my Pale Moon, and Ghostery. The first one because it's fast and light compared to ABP, but does not block 100% ads always.

 

[OneDay]

I'm currently using uBlock in Opera and uMatrix.
Second one not actually a privacy extension per se (it doesn't use a blacklist of tracking companies, although it uses some HOSTS files), but let's you in full control of where your PC is allowed to connect to.
Both are amazingly lightweight and pretty effective.

 

[Chromatinfish 123]

I use Emsisoft Antimalware.

I have enabled Privacy Protection in that plus I have the list of Ad Domain/ Tracking domain to the sites I visit. So I have blocked those using Emsisoft's Surf Protection.

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So after this I do not receive any Ads
Also I use Firefox most of the times with Third Party Cookies Disabled.

So no extra software, so extra resource waste

Also it has more protection. Because it will work for all programs not only the browsers. You can't even ping those Ad/Tracking domains

Where do you get those domains? Do you need to put them in manually, or can you paste easylist/fanboy inside?

 

[Anupam]

Where do you get those domains? Do you need to put them in manually, or can you paste easylist/fanboy inside?

Those list I collected myself. Only the ones applicable for me .

You can add any list there. But no regular expression. Put tracking domain in a file and after that you can import those.

 

[j9ksf]

You can't beat Adguard 5.10, but it does cost. IMO it's worth it.

 

[akshay1189]

Adguard , I got it free !

 

[akshay1189]

I use Emsisoft Antimalware.

I have enabled Privacy Protection in that plus I have the list of Ad Domain/ Tracking domain to the sites I visit. So I have blocked those using Emsisoft's Surf Protection.

View attachment 34187


So after this I do not receive any Ads
Also I use Firefox most of the times with Third Party Cookies Disabled.

So no extra software, so extra resource waste

Also it has more protection. Because it will work for all programs not only the browsers. You can't even ping those Ad/Tracking domains

CAN you explain from where did you the list of Ad Domain/ Tracking domain to the sites you visit ???

 

[Anupam]

CAN you explain from where did you the list of Ad Domain/ Tracking domain to the sites you visit ???

When I am in Google Chrome, I right click --> View Page Info --> Permission --> Show Cookies and Site Data.

 

[DrySun]

I use MVPS Host. Blocks most ads except text based ones which I'm fine with.

 

[Tani]

I use Addguard Plus extension in my chrome, basically I only use this browser so I don't need for any software that could always run in background

 

[MalwareT]

AdGuard

 

[Ink]

I use AdBlock on Chrome. There is AdGuard on another PC, and everyone else uses AdBlock Plus. - All Chrome users.

 

[Cats-4_Owners-2]

Our family uses...

On Windows 8.1 & linux distros:

• Adblock Edge on Firefox, Cyberfox, Pale Moon, Ice Weasle
  
• Adguard (interchangeably) with uBlock on Chrome & Chromium

Windows 7 SP 1 & Windows XP:

• Adblock Plus placed for my wife on Firefox before learning there exists choices from among others.

(Our Son's) Windows 7 SP 1:

• ..hopefully something (anything). He doesn't like talking about such matters since his friend's re-install went amiss (Oh, oh...) and left him with driver problem issues.

 

[MrXidus]

AdGuard, Ghostery, BetterPrivacy, Anti-AdBlock Killer, Self-Destructing Cookies extensions in browser.

I also use HostsMan software with the following lists for my hosts file which serves as a fallback.

MVPS Hosts, hpHosts (Ad and tracking), Peter Lowe's AdServers List, Cameleon.

With this setup I haven't seen an ad in over 6 months.