Anyone know of a adblocker that works

[Pixel]

I use uBlock Origin on Firefox, hasn't skipped a beat so far.

The internet is a pull medium, not a push one, always remember that when the corporations try to label you a bad guy for blocking ads.

 

[Mark A]

I use adblock and ublock origin and recently have been getting unskippable ads slip through on Twitch and Youtube.

 

[murah]

Ublock origin works great with easy+fanboy list

 

[adolf hamster]

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!

there's a balance to be struck, advertising is ok, but there's a line between whats acceptable and overtly intrusive.

for me anything that plays audio, overlays or popups is not acceptable. only exception is 30s or 5s skippable ads for video content provided it's one per video.

i subscribe to adblocks "non intrusive" advertising, because i think it's a fair way of doing things, but it's the advertising industry that's created adblocks and they need to acknowledge that.

 

[Django x2]

I don't think I've had an ad in Chrome since like forever

 

[CREATIVE!11]

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.

Amazing.

Doubt that would work with twitch ads I assume since they are now embedded in the stream.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

It's surprising how many sneaky ad domains there are constantly zipping stuff back and forth. These are some screenshots of my Pi-hole and you can see that Google tend to be one of the biggest culprits.

 

[checjb]

I don't think I've had an ad in Chrome since like forever

I wish. I recently switched over to using a Chromebook (which I love for it's ease of use and instant on features) but, despite having pop-ups disabled in settings and also have Popup Blocker installed, about every 5th link I click on opens a new tab with the same recurring adverts. I've even reset the whole Chromebok (after stopping Extension backup) and I still get it.

 

[adolf hamster]

I wish. I recently switched over to using a Chromebook (which I love for it's ease of use and instant on features) but, despite having pop-ups disabled in settings and also have Popup Blocker installed, about every 5th link I click on opens a new tab with the same recurring adverts. I've even reset the whole Chromebok (after stopping Extension backup) and I still get it.

tbf, i wouldn't trust google, a company that quite literally is built on advertising revenue, to build a machine/os that was ad-free by default...

 

[Hellsmk2]

Whoever suggested Pi-hole. Cheers!

Took about 10 mins to configure and is absolutely top notch. Even better, it's sped up browsing web pages by about 10 times now that the ads are blocked further upstream. Seriously seriously impressed with it.

Quick test on my mobile to dailymail.co.cuk - 57 secs to load a page without, under 10 seconds with. All ads gone.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

It really is an amazing bit of software. I got a RPi3 as a dedicated Pi-hole and it's just perfect

 

[ianh]

Ghostery and UBlock Origin (with every 3rd party filter added in the settings menu) and I don't get adverts on 99.9% of the pages I browse.

 

[Rainmaker]

Ghostery tracks and sells all its user data to the ad industry. I'd rather have a 'real' ad blocker that was open source and user-focused, rather than 'harvest the user's data' focused, personally.

I'm currently trialling Pi-Hole + uBlock Origin instead of Adguard as per @EVH's recommendation above. It's in a VirtualBox instance with a Debian Stretch server install base. So far it's blocked a lot of stuff, granted. However uBlock is still catching tens of items per site/page which to me seems it make somewhat redundant.

If I have to run an adblocker anyway, is there really any point running an upstream service also? True, you could argue that DNS level blocking means (some) ads aren't downloaded to begin with, and thus the total page load time is reduced. In fact, pages do seem snappier now compared to before (high end machines, 200Mbps VM). How much of that is down to Pi-Hole and how much is down to switching to uBlock Origin from Adguard, however, I don't know. The Pi-Hole stats page is purdy, however.

As an aside, this does seem a more convoluted way to do things. Before I had Adguard. Now I need Pi-Hole (with extra electricity, however minor), plus uBlock Origin, plus uBlock Extra (for websocket protection), plus uBlock Protector (for anti-adblock overlays) to do the same job properly. Not sure if it's worth the extra bloat/overhead. I will try it out for a week and see how it goes though, to be fair. I've set all our household devices to use the Pi-Hole as their DNS for a 'proper' representative test.

The only thing that concerns me (and will probably be 'fixed' by extra reading around) is VPN usage. I can use Viscosity for VPN connections and set Pi-Hole as the DNS in that I suppose, but for other devices where that's not possible - mostly iOS and Android - it means the second a VPN connects the ads are back without a separate extension. Again it's another factor which may help make Pi-Hole somewhat redundant.

Ghostery and UBlock Origin (with every 3rd party filter added in the settings menu) and I don't get adverts on 99.9% of the pages I browse.

I've seen a few posts like this (every filter list ticked), or else 'I have seven different adblockers running at the same time' posts. You guys are seriously increasing your overhead and slowing down your browsing for not much gain. You only need one blocker - uBlock Origin and Adguard are the lightest by far. Forget Adblock. Also only enable as many filter lists as you need - the least the better. Default Adguard / uBlock Origin lists plus anti-cookie-popups plus anti-adblock-killer is about all you need in the real world. Check out FilterLists.com for an excellent up to date list of Adblock/uBlock filter lists that let you just click 'Add' for the ones you'd like.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

If you have Pi-hole, go with a basic ad blocker like "Adblock" for Chrome.

uBlock is something I'd recommend for someone as a standalone solution.

 

[Rainmaker]

If you have Pi-hole, go with a basic ad blocker like "Adblock" for Chrome.

uBlock is something I'd recommend for someone as a standalone solution.

Thanks for the quick reply. I only grabbed uBlock Origin because it's what's recommended on Pi-Hole's Reddit sub as the 'best' browser companion for element hiding. I didn't consider Adblock tbf, but mostly because I stopped using it years ago due to its much higher CPU and memory usage (about double that of uBlock). I'll give it a go and see if it's any/much better. Cheers.

 

[Fishbait]

Palemoon (Firefox fork), Ublock Origin & uMatrix.
Never seen an ad' since installed these

 

[hyperseven]

uBlock Chrome extension + Pihole on Ubuntu VM on a microserver.