Best AD blocking programs today?

Huge fan of AdGuard and a beta tester.

 

I've been satisfied for years using AdBlock with Chrome after being disappointed with AdMuncher. I've just installed uBlock following some members advice, and so far It seems to be definitely faster than AdBlock, good thread thanks...

 

Ghostery & ABP.

 

I use Adblock Edge (EasyList+EasyPrivacy Only), Element Hiding Helper, and NoScript for FF.

 

AdGuard is outstanding. Been using AdMuncher for years but it misses ads on sites which use HTTPS for their ads. AdMuncher doesn't work in Internet Explorer 11 either... AdGuard is a bit slower than AdMuncher but on the other hand is completely customizable.

 

I have been testing the beta of adguard and I really don't see the advantage since it requires more ram which is not a problem but the HD I/O is higher than the different av's that I have had installed, Panda Cloud, 360 total security and avira free. What I mean is that basically you can get the same using any free add on and the blocking capabilities are exactly the same since all of them use the same lists.
Ok, adguard works for all the browsers, and it supports scripts... but for many of us this isn't added value because again you can have addons in all the browsers and scripts as well with greasemonkey and the chrome counterpart.

 

If I understand correctly, Chrome extensions cannot prevent ads from downloading. They're just hidden when a browser adblocking extension is used. No data traffic saved there.

 

Correct. Thanks to Comcast putting me on a 300GB a month limit and my family using a Roku as well as a downloading a lot of movies online, we need every KB we can spare. AdGuard may use a lot of RAM, but so does Chrome. I have 32GB of it and could care less.

As far as HD I/O, it isn't noticeable with a proper SSD, which I don't see how anyone could have a functioning computer these days without one. A PC in every room of the house, and nothing but SSD's.

 

I would reccomend AdGuard since it is not only simple adblocker but also a browsing security and parental control tool.

 

gorhill*
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/ublock-a-lean-and-fast-blocker.365273/#post-2385108
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/ublock-a-lean-and-fast-blocker.365273/#post-2385156
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/ublock-a-lean-and-fast-blocker.365273/#post-2385157
&
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/ublock-a-lean-and-fast-blocker.365273/#post-2385181


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https://github.com/gorhill
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

 

I didn't know that about chrome but I think in firefox is different, at least I have seen ad block test that takes into account the downloaded data to understand which is the best ad blocker.

As you said:
https://kb.adguard.com/index.php?/K...-adguard-better-than-adblock-and-adblock-plus

A high I/O can degrade the SSD life, but probably the impact is insignificant in this case.

 

• AdGuard Standard (Premium) License 3 PCs / 1 Year = 39€ (44,95€)
  
• F-Secure Anti-Virus 3 PCs / 1 Year = 24,95€
  (Price is from an official German reseller EDV-Buchversand, not ebay)

The pricing is just plain ridiculous, especially when you take into consideration the amount of money and work it takes to maintain a top notch anti-virus program. It's even more ridiculous when you compare it with what the browser extensions already offer. Yet people are willing to pay serious dough for this without second thought and AVs are supposed to be free of course, sure.

 

+1 This has been great. So much less memory use than adblock plus which I was using. Right now its using 46k with 4 tabs open and adblock plus - just installed it to compare - is at 127k with less filters.

 

yes it is, same with AdMuncher
particularly when there's AdFender around, let alone browser apps

 

JFYI according to my experience ABP works better in Firefox compared to its Chrome port.

 

So it would seem an Adblocker used for either IE or Chrome should be an external program which actually stops ads from downloading. Firefox allows extensions to do this job via an API which IE and Chrome does not.

That pretty much tells me there are three contenders;

AdGuard
Adfender (does not block HTTPS)
AdMuncher (can't be used with IE)

The choice seems rather simple to me.

 

AdMuncher?

 

Well, if I've understood gorhill's comment correctly, an external program is in fact not necessary.

 

AdGuard doesn't block more ads than ABP in my tests, I will stay with ABP and Ghostery.

 

+1 Adguard
Adguard blocks most that I have come across and if there is something missed it can be reported directly through the UI, the Adguard assistant will also help you add custom blocks for any page material you don't want to see again.

 

Correct, requests can be blocked by the browser API. I don't know why these myths persist, it is so easy to check for oneself.

Regarding cosmetic filtering (aka "element hiding"), the advantage of an external program though is that it can remove DOM elements before the page is parsed by the browser. Still, to be a complete solution, an extension is difficult to avoid, as DOM mutations must also be taken care of, and an external program will have a hard time to deal with this -- that would mean to remove precisely the javascript snippets which will mutate the DOM in an undesirable way. Quite a task.

 

I'm currently very happy with Adguard Premium, it's a worthy replacement for Admuncher...
Ghostery as a freeware alternative is also very nice.

 

Adblock Plus add-on for Firefox combined with Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus add-on, rocks for me.

 

Adblock Plus + Element Hiding Helper + Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon

 

AdBlock Plus for Firefox and uBlock for Chrome.