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.

 

[MrExplorer]

uBlock is working great in my browser.

 

[riruan]

process explorer shows adguard takes almost 200 M private bytes, does it mean adguard uses so much ram?

 

[Amiga500]

im using ublock which seems effective and light on resources.

 

[Atlas147]

I use Adblock! Used adguard for a while but has some problems loading pages (eg Avast account login) so I changed back to Adblock

 

[Sr. Normal]

In Chrome i use Adblock + Ghostery + Blur

In Cyberfox Adblock Plus + Ghostery + Blur

I 'm hearing a lot about ublock ,perhaps i give it a chance

 

[jerzy601]

now I use Ghostery + AdGuard browser plug-in as well as Opera and Firefox so.

 

[riruan]

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.

Hostsman is gonna freeze your computer startup like 30 seconds

 

[MrXidus]

Hostsman is gonna freeze your computer startup like 30 seconds

Nope, All is fine here on my end.

 

[riruan]

Nope, All is fine here on my end.

anyway im using ublock and it features all those host files hostsman offers without slow my startup

 

[Bill7]

Firefox = Ad block plus + Ghostery + Disconnect
Chrome/Opera = Ublock + Ghostery + Disconnect

 

[MrXidus]

anyway im using ublock and it features all those host files hostsman offers without slow my startup

I use the hosts file not just to block ads in my web browser but also block ads that appear in other applications such as Tunngle.
It also blocks the optional PUP offers from loading in various software installers if Unchecky doesn't intervene.

I've been using uBlock in Cyberfox for the past few days with fine use, chances are I'll keep this over AdGuard for Firefox.

For anyone interested in uBlock for Firefox look here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases

 

[Sr. Normal]

In Chrome i use Adblock + Ghostery + Blur

In Cyberfox Adblock Plus + Ghostery + Blur

I 'm hearing a lot about ublock ,perhaps i give it a chance

I changed Adblock and adblock plus for ublock

Eliminated blur of both

Thanks again @yigido for teach me how install ublock in Cyberfox

 

[riruan]

I changed Adblock and adblock plus for ublock

Eliminated blur of both

Thanks again @yigido for teach me how install ublock in Cyberfox

Do you use Ghostery along with uBlock? I don't want to have two extensions running that are doing the same thing

 

[Sr. Normal]

Do you use Ghostery along with uBlock? I don't want to have two extensions running that are doing the same thing

Hi @riruan

I do not think they do the same job. ublock or Adblock is to remove ads while Ghostery is for crawlers , such cookies to a trademark that " accompanies you " to view your browsing habits and so offer a more personalized advertising

 

[Bergo]

Firefox:uBlock+Disconnect.me
Internet Explorer: built in ad blocker (EasyList, TRUSTe, Privacy Choice)

 

[Amiga500]

Umatrix runs well with Ublock also.

 

[Sr. Normal]

Umatrix runs well with Ublock also.

Thanks , i did not know it , does not seem comfortable at first , but of course is the most powerful tool. I am learning to configure it and I like it , I think it has earned a place in my browser

 

[King Alpha]

AdGuard and Ghostery for Chrome
Disconnect for Firefox

 

[Kumaran]

AdGuard and Blur for me.

 

[Amiga500]

I have noticed now that ublock has full script blocking capability,