Suggestions for https advert blocking in a web browser

Discussion in 'other software & services' started by trott3r, Dec 31, 2017.

  1. trott3r

    trott3r Registered Member

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    Hello,

    I getting frustrated with increasingly intrusive adverts which my older software does not block anymore due to them being mainly https.

    I use agnitum opfw which of course is unsupported now and does not filter https traffic.
    Adguard seems to only work with installed browsers and doesnt seem to pick up portable web browsers.

    What do other people use?

    thanks
    Martin
     
  2. Minimalist

    Minimalist Registered Member

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    I'm using uBlock Origin in my browser. Since that's only program that can deliver me adds it's enough for me.
     
  3. reasonablePrivacy

    reasonablePrivacy Registered Member

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    When traffic is protected by TLS you must use in-browser apps (add-ons) or proxy with MitM attack capabilities and add certificate of that proxy to browser trusted list of certificates.
    Most users just use add-ons for browser.
     
  4. WildByDesign

    WildByDesign Registered Member

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    You can manually select browser executables (portable or otherwise) via Adguard GUI. I've had to manually add portable Chromium (chrome.exe) located in RAMDisk previously. You can also add virtual machine software executables to allow Adguard to filter VM guests.
     
  5. Krusty

    Krusty Registered Member

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  6. Brummelchen

    Brummelchen Registered Member

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    MITM (man in the middle) software needs to break TLS to work properly. (any antivirus traffic protection do same way)

    extensions like uBlock work in browser directly when data has arrived.
    advantage system: system wide
    advantage browser: efficient
     
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