Ad blockers.

[leigh1050]

This has more than likely been done loads of times but ad blockers?
I have ad block plus for windows. Problem is it stops working after about a week to ten days.
Is there a way to keep it working without uninstalling and reinstalling?
Or is there a better ad blocker?

[Riley Blue]

I use the one in Opera, no complaints.

[markiii]

Pihole

That is all

[Mr-B]

I find ublock origin on chrome works very well, don't even get adverts on youtube vids. You can disable it easily if you are concerned that your favourite YT'er is missing on ad revenue from one of your views though.

[Turn7]

Ublock Origin, Noscript,privacy badger and HTTPS everywhere with FIrefoxplus FB container

[mattley]

markiii said:

Pihole

That is all

But it isn't is it!

Difficult to set up without a raspberry Pi, and annoying to set up with one.
Doesn't block Youtube Ads


uBlock origin and nano defender work very well together.

Full on paid AdBlock allows you to whitelist your favourite Youtubers if you care about that.

[Amused2death]

Brave browser, no ad's on here, Youtube, or anywhere else and no annoying popups either.

I've installed it on every device in the house and it's run flawlessly.

[AJB88]

Brave browser and set your DNS to point at AdGuard.

[stemll]

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[AJB88]

stemll said:

I would. It means I don't have to explain to either the Mrs or the kids about ad blockers. Just redirect the DNS on the router and everything is blocked including most ads in games on tablet/phone.

In a year of running it, I have encountered one site that it's affected and it takes all of 10 seconds to logon to the console and disable it. It also seems to be far less prone to triggering annoying "you appear to be running an ad blocker" pop-ups, not sure I can recall seeing one of those since I installed the Pihole. Not that they ever made me disable a blocker, I'd just go to another site.

Just as easy to point the DNS to AdGuard

[Monty Python]

AdBlock on Edge works fine here - no ads on YT at all.

[mariopepper]

Adblock additional for opera. Quite comfortable and free add

[ambuletz]

any thoughts on a good one for firefox and chrome? I have both adblock and ad block plus (this one on both browsers).

But on firefox still get annoying ads in between some videos on facebook.
On chrome I still get ads whenever entering a twitch channel. I don't mind this too much.. but the worst are some speedrun channels that will randomly show ads during the stream.. which means you miss out on 20sec of someone in the middle of a run.

[AJB88]

just set up an ad block dns.

Although I have to turn mine off to watch Sky through XBOX or else it messes it up.

[QuartzDad]

ambuletz said:

any thoughts on a good one for firefox and chrome? I have both adblock and ad block plus (this one on both browsers).

I use Ublock Origin on Firefox, I don't see ads.

[Zad]

Ublock Origin on both Chrome and Firefox here.

[peterperkins]

PiHole for the house/router and UBlock origin on the actual PC's.

Kills anything AD related.

But I do agree pihole is a PITA to set up if you're not a Linux person/techy.

It also occasionally dies and corrupts the files on the sd card so has to be reconstructed/re-loaded.

Touch wood it's been running ok for a couple of months now.

[mattley]

stemll said:

Just redirect the DNS on the router .

Which you can't do on most ISP supplied routers.

It's a bit stupid recommending PiHole on thread questions like this. If PiHole is an answer the questioner will already know about it.

[stemll]

mattley said:

stemll said:

Just redirect the DNS on the router .

Which you can't do on most ISP supplied routers.

It's a bit stupid recommending PiHole on thread questions like this. If PiHole is an answer the questioner will already know about it.

PiHole is an ad blocker so it is a perfectly valid answer to the question asked. Saying that the questioner will already know about it is a bit stupid (to use your own terminology). If they already knew all of the available options, they wouldn't be asking.

What is also a bit stupid is replying 7 months after the question was asked, contributing nothing of value and then saying that you can't redirect on most ISP routers as you have no idea what router the OP uses. Surely if the OP couldn't redirect the DNS they'd already know that?