Adblock vs. uBlock origin?

MadHQ · Commander **Joined**: 07 Nov 2003

For years I have been using Adblock, however for the past few months I have been noticing adds coming through Adblock. So, I spent some time Googling and found out that Adblock is not the only add killer.

uBlock Origin is another add killer. I have installed it along side Adblock, and its seems to be better...

Does anyone here have any experience with uBlock? Should I ditch Adblock, or should I got with both, or just stick with Adblock...?

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G-E · Defense Minister **Joined**: 09 Feb 2015

I switched to uBlock a while back for performance reasons, Adblock suffers with a lot of tabs, but I haven't tried since FF switched to a WebKit-like engine for Quantum...

uBlock does give you some easier at-a-glance options to toggle filtering, but it's slightly harder to administer as a power user.

As for your problem of ads coming through, sites are getting more clever in how they push ads to bypass blockers in general, since it can be a big source of revenue. With the data protection laws in the EU we've had those cookie popups on most sites, so I think it just encouraging sites to put effort into reworking their code for both at the same time.

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Allen · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2019 1:53 am Post subject:

Ditched AdBlockPlus a year+ ago when it started braking websites for uBlock. Mostly happy with uBlock. Also running Ghostery now. Its okay.

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DonutArnold · General **Joined**: 18 Jan 2005 **Location**: Finland

I also ditched AdBlockPlus over a year ago because it started to be lazy with blocking some really annoying ads. I started to use uBlock Origin and I'm really satisfied with it.

Banshee · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 2:27 pm Post subject:

I've also ditched AdBlockPlus as soon as I've heard that they have changed their policies to allow certain "trustworthy ads". I am very satisfied with uBlock Origin so far.