uBlock Origin is largely considert the best and really only necessary ad/contentblocker. Just remember to enable all relevant filterlists in its settings and you should be good to go.
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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Will do! Looks like uBlock should be exactly what I need.
Important to note the difference between “uBlock” and “uBlock Origin”. The latter is the good one.
/pedantry 😂
Firefox offers Enhanced Tracking Protection out of the box, check settings. For adblock, I suggest uBlock Origin.
I don't recommend Ghostery, they've sold data before and are pretty controversial.
Just stick to uBlock Origin. Ran entirely independent by the community, not by a for-profit company (like Ghostery for instance), plus extremely reputable and well trusted, free and open source, etc.
Perfect! Thank you, I will check them out.
Ublock origin is the gold standard of ad blockers everywhere, it shoukd have similar effect as brave blocker by default. Many browsers even install it by default.
You can also tweak block list. For example, I dont block ads, but I block annoyance and trackers. There are also several region/language specific block list you can enable.
Unless you absolutely need the very latest upstream features, just go with Librewolf.
It's literally just Firefox, but:
- - telemetry to Google and Mozilla
- - useless features like pocket and recommended websites
- + privacy-focused, aka non brain dead default settings
- + uBlock Origin installed by default
Librewolf looks super interesting. I might give this a shot first and see what it's like.
I find that avoiding trackers is a tough thing. They will always find out about you, so I use Adnausem to click on every advert on a page while also hiding them. Messes up any kind of targeted advertising.