Anyone know of a adblocker that works

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Any one know of a adblocker that works ?

For some reason I get popups and ads even with adblock installled ive tried adblock ublock adblcker plus ext, for some reason i still get ads, I dont visit any sites that should cause this, ive also ran antivirus and spyware scanners just in case but nothing is picked up.

I use Chrome, should i switch browsers ?
 
Get yourself a Raspberry Pi (even a Pi Zero W will do) and set up a Pi-hole. There's a thread about it here. One device, ten minutes setup and your entire network will be advert free.
 
Adblock Plus works fine for me with Firefox.

Even get whinges from some sites that I'm using it, so it must be good.
 
Standard Adblock works alright for me, the odd one pops through but nothing major.

However, now that a run a website that gains income through adverts, I am reluctant to now use it. Websites I enjoy I'll happily white list.

The internet is free at point of use thanks to adverts, give back to the places who's services you enjoy!
 
I find Adguard blocks the stuff that Adblock/uBlock etc misses. They have an excellent paid-for app, which basically just adds the ability to block ads in all programs (apps, browsers, Windows apps etc). Crucially however they also offer equally fully featured browser extensions for free. It's also open source and protects your privacy. They block ads, banners, overlays, pop-ups, video ads (including YouTube etc)... You name it.

Once it's install you can go into the settings and enable any extra filters you want (anti-adblock, no cookies, etc). They also have integrated WoT if you wish to turn it on. The extension is very light and fast, using maybe half the resources of Adblock et al., and blocks pretty much everything. It even kills the 'Please disable your adblocker' type overlays which seem so hard to shift with Adblock and co. I love it.

Chrome.
Opera.
Firefox.

They also have extensions for Safari, IE, Edge etc but that should get you started. You're welcome. :p
 
I use Ublock Origin on FF x64 which is very good overall but it does fail to stop popups occasionally so I also installed Strict Popup Blocker which seems to do the trick. I recently installed NoScript also, but it's a pita to be honest so have it disabled at the moment.
 
Feek said:
Get yourself a Raspberry Pi (even a Pi Zero W will do) and set up a Pi-hole. There's a thread about it here. One device, ten minutes setup and your entire network will be advert free.
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The only thing that put me off Pi-hole (I ran it in a VM once for the lulz) was the complete lack of element hiding. Having a big empty box with 'Advertisement' written across it, or a big empty space, is just as bad as having an advert imho.
 
FL630 said:
Standard Adblock works alright for me, the odd one pops through but nothing major.

However, now that a run a website that gains income through adverts, I am reluctant to now use it. Websites I enjoy I'll happily white list.

The internet is free at point of use thanks to adverts, give back to the places who's services you enjoy!
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I dont mind the fair ads for site like this forum, but I hate popup mainly the ones with video (how i make made so much money ext) ill be using a site with no sound then all of a sudden ill hear a loud noise, or casino ads ext which I hate.


Rainmaker said:
I find Adguard blocks the stuff that Adblock/uBlock etc misses. They have an excellent paid-for app, which basically just adds the ability to block ads in all programs (apps, browsers, Windows apps etc). Crucially however they also offer equally fully featured browser extensions for free. It's also open source and protects your privacy. They block ads, banners, overlays, pop-ups, video ads (including YouTube etc)... You name it.

Once it's install you can go into the settings and enable any extra filters you want (anti-adblock, no cookies, etc). They also have integrated WoT if you wish to turn it on. The extension is very light and fast, using maybe half the resources of Adblock et al., and blocks pretty much everything. It even kills the 'Please disable your adblocker' type overlays which seem so hard to shift with Adblock and co. I love it.

Chrome.
Opera.
Firefox.

They also have extensions for Safari, IE, Edge etc but that should get you started. You're welcome. :p
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Ill give it a shot

weyland yutani said:
I use Ublock Origin on FF x64 which is very good overall but it does fail to stop popups occasionally so I also installed Strict Popup Blocker which seems to do the trick. I recently installed NoScript also, but it's a pita to be honest so have it disabled at the moment.
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Thats the same issue ive been having its mostly the popups so ill see if this works.


BigT said:
I run Pi-hole on a VM and it does the job well.
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How can i do this, I was thinking of using pi hole after buying a pi but this may be a good way to try it out, would running VM not use a lot more resources also how would you run it on auto each time you turn the pc on ? I do have a windows micro server so if I dont have the above issues i could just run it off that.
 
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Rainmaker said:
The only thing that put me off Pi-hole (I ran it in a VM once for the lulz) was the complete lack of element hiding. Having a big empty box with 'Advertisement' written across it, or a big empty space, is just as bad as having an advert imho.
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The trick is to run a web browser ad blocker in addition to the network Pi-hole.

This way ads are removed at source and the local browser is solely used to correct the layout without the slow down of removing the ads themselves.
 
FL630 said:
Standard Adblock works alright for me, the odd one pops through but nothing major.

However, now that a run a website that gains income through adverts, I am reluctant to now use it. Websites I enjoy I'll happily white list.

The internet is free at point of use thanks to adverts, give back to the places who's services you enjoy!
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I try not to block ads and don't run active ad blocking - but the number of sites that are just silly with it pretty much forces me to employ counter-measures on far too many sites the other annoying one is those sites that falsely detect my security scripts as an ad blocker and mask the site content which ironically just results in me using an ad blocker which prevents them doing that.
 
FL630 said:
Standard Adblock works alright for me, the odd one pops through but nothing major.

However, now that a run a website that gains income through adverts, I am reluctant to now use it. Websites I enjoy I'll happily white list.

The internet is free at point of use thanks to adverts, give back to the places who's services you enjoy!
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I use NoScript for Firefox, which is security software that blocks almost all ads as a side effect because the way almost all ads are served has security issues.

The drawback from my POV is that it makes it difficult to enable ads for sites I want to be allowed to advertise at me because the site itself is hardly ever the site that handles the ads. When I visit a page that has 10, 20, 30 different sources trying to run scripts on my PC, which one is for adverts?

Youtube, for example. I watch a lot of Youtube videos and I'd like to allow the creators to get whatever little slice of advertising money Google will allow them to have. But even if I allow every source to run scripts on my PC, I still rarely get advertised at and I can't see any pattern to determine when I do and when I don't.
 
^^ Only time I have problems really with noscript with the settings I use is when a site uses an ever changing IP for content/ad source - at which point I just go meh and enable ad blocking for that site :s
 
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