Article in the Boston Globe today about them and how they are threatening internet business. Are there universally recommended ones?
saintnick912 said:I've been using uBlock Origin for a while now, after getting tired of the bloat of AdBlock Plus. I turn it off for most sites, but keep it for some obnoxious sites and certain elements of other sites that I find distracting (like the huge board stats block on here for instance).
https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-for-best-performance/view-all/
nvalvo said:I've been experimenting with Ghostery for a couple of weeks, mostly as an effort to goose performance on my 2010-vintage macbook. Early returns are favorable!
Joe Sixpack said:
Ghostery and Disconnect are privacy/tracking cookie blockers, not ad blockers. They are both very good at what they do, but limited. Ghostery is closed source which is a concern for privacy software. I'd recommend Disconnect in its place. For those with ethical concerns over ad blocking but still want privacy protections they are probably your best bet.
uBlock, and Adblock Plus, etc, can perform both functions, in terms of ad blocking and tracking/cookie blocking, as long as you enable the right sets of filters.
I recommend uBlock over adblock plus because it's more efficient on system resources.
With either, add the fanboy ultimate list and it should cover everything you need to block:
https://www.fanboy.co.nz/filters.html
I also run Disconnect in conjunction with this.
The difference was easy to spot: many websites loaded faster and felt easier to use. Data is also expensive. We estimated that on an average American cell data plan, each megabyte downloaded over a cell network costs about a penny. Visiting the home page of Boston.com every day for a month would cost the equivalent of about $9.50 in data usage just for the ads.