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Good advice with two additions:
Do you know if there is any benefit in still using the small filter 'uBlock filters – Quick fixes'? This seems to be being regularly updated in relation to YouTube ad-block blocking per a weekly thready on Reddit on /r/ublockorigin
Yeah quick fixes is good, at the moment I use on my wife's laptop
I haven't heard of the Adguard optimized base filter list. What is the difference with the regular base filter list?
@Gandalf_The_Grey describes them at a high level (from a previous post - Question - Which Ubo filters 2023 do you use ?)
You can find them here:
Thank you for the reply back. Do you know if the optimized list blocks as much as the regular AG base list? Or does it at least come close in terms of ability to block adds compared to the regular list?@Gandalf_The_Grey describes them at a high level (from a previous post - Question - Which Ubo filters 2023 do you use ?)
“You could use the optimized variants of EasyList and EasyPrivacy for reducing memory/cpu usage.
You can find them here:
FilterLists | Subscriptions for uBlock Origin, Adblock Plus, AdGuard, ...
FilterLists is the independent, comprehensive directory of filter and host lists for advertisements, trackers, malware, and annoyances. By Collin M. Barrett.
filterlists.com
Search for optimized”
Optimized AdGuard - Ads list had about 31000 lines, compare to about 78000 lines. However in my experience, since changing to these lists about a week ago, I have found no difference in the blocking of ads on the sites I visit
How do you deal with the cookie notifys? Some browsers can block them as built-in feature but wich browser youre also using?I discovered something new (not new uBO functionally, but new to me) about cosmetic filtering.
uBO has the option to disable cosmetic filtering in Settings and disable "Import and apply cosmetic filters" in My Filters.
I usually run with cosmetic filtering disabled and only enabled it on youtube plus 7 news websites. I discovered that when I copy some news websites rules (from LennyFox) into MyFilters and disable"import and apply cosmetic filters", the 82 rules in My Filters are working as normal.
So now I have a total rule count of < 25.000 network filters and < 100 cosmetic filters
I added it once to check whether it was of any added value for the websites I often visit and it did not seem to make any difference.
Using Chrome now. For the websites I often visit, I enable cosmetic filtering and custom rules with the element picker.
It will only accept cookies if the website is known to completely/partially break without accepting cookies. There are some news/entertainment sites for example that won't play videos unless you accept cookies.
