Like some others, I use AdBlock Pro ($12 a year, I believe, for the whole family, cross device). I use Brave Browser, stay away from Google, if I can, and have a VPN.
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Best Mac Adblocker for PRIVACY and data protection? [MERGED]
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I use Ghostery and Firefox on my work computer, (MSwindows). The only work around I found for that issue is to not click on the video you want to watch, right click and open in a new window and it will work.
I never thought of that. But it seems like uBlock Origin was included with FireFox so I tried that and it seems to be working. I tried the Ghostery browser but I had the same issue. Otherwise it seems to be a good web browser.
no reason to use ghostry or any paid blockers. ublock origin does it all for free. If you are on safari, you can use Wipr or 1blocker both paid but cheap enough. Or you can use Brave Broswer that has built in adblocker even on iOS version
I was curious, I just ran the test on 1blocker, website and data is pointed to Russia servers internally. I had the Russia blacklisted on my network. I could not access their service without whitelisting them before investigating and trace all the path.
So I am not sure why people said made in SF. All sources IP all pointed to Russia servers inside the 1blocker app.
Still with AdGuard's extension for Edge/Safari and uBlock Origin for FireFox. I also use OpenDNS across all devices and the router, don't see ad's unless I opt to whitelist. There are stronger options for anonymity & privacy, equally rarely needed.
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Website, Extension. Installed 1Blocker and blacklist Russia GeoIP again. 1blocker will just break stop working.
interesting, guess comes down to a question of trust. I still trust AdGuard, equally is FOSS so anyone can examine the code. I also consider if AdGuard had any nefarious intentions it would be out there by now and would instantly kill the company. Should the status quo change then there are other options, equally AdGuard is very good at what it does...
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I use DuckDuckGo for most of my searches, which covers almost everything I need. I don’t participate in the usual social media platforms, and I don’t count Mac Rumors and car forums in that category. The only time I get pop-ups is when I click on a link that takes me to MSNBC or some other site like that. 🤷♂️
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I heard 1blockr is Russian but I do not care honestly. If you open the preferences in Safari it tells you which filters can read your browser data and which do not. So you pick and choose as you wish.
you can use Wipr which does the same thing
I believe 1Blocker Scripts is only used on YouTube so far but they are trying to re-develop 1Blocker to use it on more sites that load server-side ads which 1Blocker is unable to block on it's own (Tubi, Twitter, etc...). Also a simple Google search about the guy behind 1Blocker would tell you he's from Russia. It doesn't mean anything, if it was in China I would be more worried. I have never heard of Russia doing the same things with data as China and also it doesn't mean any info is stored on Russian servers, it may just be the servers where the filter updates come from and the app won't work without those filters.
And the end of the day 1Blocker has been the best adblocker for me and the support is outstanding, if YouTube ads start showing up, you let them know and within a few hours they're blocked again. The 1Blocker team is the best.
What did you find about it to be "the best" ? Honestly I rather choose the FOSS route with the gold standard that is uBlock Origin but that does not work on Safari.
I've been using various ad blockers, including AdGuard, and recently started worrying about these extensions potentially degrading my browser's performance. To investigate further, I ran Safari benchmarks using Speedometer 3.0 with different ad blockers enabled and noticed that some of them can significantly reduce performance. As a result, I decided to remove all ad-blocking extensions and switched to using AdGuard's DNS ad blocker instead. However, the downside is that I can't use Private Relay with this setup. Now, I'm considering switching back to using Private Relay along with ad-blocking extensions, or possibly using a VPN that has DNS ad-blocking capabilities.
have you tried Wipr? its pretty lightweight
EDIT: I tested and got Safari 6, Brave 4, FF 4ish . don't know what those numbers mean but browsing is pretty snappy. I wouldn't load huge web apps though. Macbook 2015
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I think it’s better and ultimately more flexible to run something external to your machine like pihole. Not only does your machine not need to perform additional processing, require extensions that do god knows what, nor require additional setup. You end up with better/more granular control with DNS based blocking in place.
Running this service external to your main operating system also means any device on your network that you point to it (including ones you can’t install software on) will get all of the same benefits of DNS based traffic filtering. And going with this approach makes the solution completely operating system, network interface technology, hardware architecture, and browser/UA agnostic.
Running this service external to your main operating system also means any device on your network that you point to it (including ones you can’t install software on) will get all of the same benefits of DNS based traffic filtering. And going with this approach makes the solution completely operating system, network interface technology, hardware architecture, and browser/UA agnostic.
I'm currently using a combo of ka-block! & crumblr on my mac (both available on the app store for multiple platforms). ka-block gets rid of ads & crumblr seems to be the first that I've experienced that has been able to block auto-playing videos on websites such as blogto, sometimes on mtlblog but not on fastcompany. Hush was pretty good but I've since replaced it with crumblr