ad blocker

aloise

can someone tell me of a decent ad blocker, There are so many i am totally confused. Thanks

System

I used to use AdBlock on Google Chrome. It seemed to work fine, and you could switch it on and off easily. (I'd say be careful when downloading things, though. I've recently had a piece of malware infect my computer and it's proving hard to get rid of.)

RumRat

UBlock Origin, Excellent adblocker.

GunJack

ublock origin is a current favourite...

GunJack

RumRat wrote: »

UBlock Origin, Excellent adblocker.

SNAP!!! I claim my prize

RumRat

GunJack wrote: »

SNAP!!! I claim my prize

Please PM your bank details for payment.....;):D

John_Gray

In Firefox, I use uBlock Origin and Ghostery. Some people also suggest NoScript.

I should point out that Mozilla are playing silly b*gg*rs with extensions as from v 55.0.3, marking some as Legacy and possibly disabling them. I think that their intention is to delete them as from v57, presumably if they are not changed to match whatever new standards have been defined. Undoubtedly uBlock Origin will be updated in time, but you may have problems until then...

Frozen_up_north

John_Gray wrote: »

In Firefox, I use uBlock Origin and Ghostery. Some people also suggest NoScript.

I should point out that Mozilla are playing silly b*gg*rs with extensions as from v 55.0.3, marking some as Legacy and possibly disabling them. I think that their intention is to delete them as from v57, presumably if they are not changed to match whatever new standards have been defined. Undoubtedly uBlock Origin will be updated in time, but you may have problems until then...

Yesterday I noticed uBlock Origin had vanished from my Firefox, something related to being legacy, however it re-installed OK. Maybe they have updated it and my version was out of date.

I also run Malware Bytes (paid for version, runs in the background constantly monitoring), it seems to be excellent at blocking malicious stuff, much more effective in my opinion than anti-virus. There seems to be quite a few links on web sites that are either false positives, or the sites have been hacked to change links to point at malware sites, in either case it is safer to have them blocked.

Farway

You may like to investigate using new kid on the browser block https://brave.com/

Comes ready configured with blocking "Browse faster by blocking ads and trackers that violate your privacy and cost you time and money."

I am using it as I type, really fast browser for me

John_Gray

Those affected by uBlock Origin being made legacy and/or not working in Firefox 55.0.3 might like to try the development channel version 1.14.3b0 (or later).

Go to the bottom of this webpage, expand Development Channel, and Download from there. Obviously beware the fact that this is beta code so may contain bugs...

aloise

thank you so much for all your help. Much appreicated