uBlock Origin: an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory. Its default behavior when newly installed is to block ads, trackers and malware sites -- through EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Peter Lowe’s ad/tracking/malware servers, various lists of malware sites, and uBlock Origin's own filter lists.

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Submitted by RaddleIsAaaawesooome in Tech

For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ The Github link above has links to other addon stores for other browsers.

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zombie_berkman wrote

Ublock is pretty good I use it on all my machines

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NEOalquimista wrote

I absolutely hate advertising, especially those in Youtube. Can you believe they have an ad that shows up in the middle of the video saying "Youtube" surrounded by a white screen and an angelical sound? What for? I'm already in Youtube, why is it advertising Youtube? WTF. Abuse of ads, that is.

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Spasticus wrote

UBlock Origin prevents about 14% of all requests (requests for ads, essentially) coming from my desktop browser. Without it, 14% of my bandwidth usage would be me paying for advertisements.

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boringskip wrote

Don't forget the anti-adblock blocker in the optional lists

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DataPacRat wrote

Relying on one single addon to protect your browser is risky; sometimes one will get taken over by a spammer, or one will sell whitelist access to advertisers.

A combination of overlapping addons may be more useful; for example, Adblock Plus, AdNauseum, BetterPrivacy, CanvasBlocker, Decentraleyes, Flashblock, Ghostery, HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript, Privacy Badger, Random Agent Spoofer, RequestPolicy, Self-Destructing Cookies, TrackMeNot, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix.

If the new Firefox doesn't let you install as many addons as you need for privacy and security, you may want to switch to a Firefox spinoff like Waterfox.

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rutabaga wrote

Replying to Spasticus (#15,133)

It's probably even more than 14% of your bandwidth honestly. Those requests that it is blocking are generally some of the largest and least optimized parts of the page.

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quandyalaterreux wrote

Replying to DataPacRat (#15,198)

Many of those are redundant. uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript and Decentraleyes are vastly sufficient. You can get anti-fingerpriting protection such as canvas blocking by enabling privacy.rresistFingerprinting (in Nightly).

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DataPacRat wrote (edited )

Replying to quandyalaterreux (#15,245)

Redundancy is precisely the point.

As just one perspective, spammers and scammers keep coming up with new tricks, and any one plugin is unlikely to block each new trick for a while. But multiple, redundant plugins mean that as soon as /any/ of them blocks the new trick, it's blocked.

If you don't like redundant security, then feel free not to use it. But if you aren't using it simply because you haven't heard of it, then feel free to give it a try.

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shiki87 wrote

uBlock Origin is great, but I prefer AdNauseam. That add-on click the ads.

And if you want to use an adblocker for maybe your TV, then you should look into te pi-hole project. There you can block the ads for you television and other devices, where you can't use an adblocker.

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