Good Ad Blocker recommendations

[Populus]

Setup Next DNS free account, install NextDNS app and link it to your online account.

You can use it on MacOS and on iPad iOS. NextDNS also works on all routers for your home network.

It's free to use and blocks ads on all apps and on all websites. Many ad blocking filters to chose from.

Is this… safe? Or does this company collect the sites you’re visiting to sell the data?

 

[BigBlur]

Setup Next DNS free account, install NextDNS app and link it to your online account.

You can use it on MacOS and on iPad iOS. NextDNS also works on all routers for your home network.

It's free to use and blocks ads on all apps and on all websites. Many ad blocking filters to chose from.

The free tier of NextDNS is limited to 300K requests per month. One can easily hit that limit, especially if done on the whole home network. Once the limit has been hit, ads will start showing for the rest of the month unless you subscribe or have multiple accounts.

Is this… safe? Or does this company collect the sites you’re visiting to sell the data?

Read their Privacy Policy. At the end of the day, it's up to you to decide whether you trust them or not.

There are other similar alternatives as well, such as AdGuard DNS and Control D. I currently use the latter on my home network for the other features it provides. Anyone who connects to my network will see no ads, even in YouTube and Disney+, without having to install anything.

 

[Populus]

There are other similar alternatives as well, such as AdGuard DNS and Control D. I currently use the latter on my home network for the other features it provides. Anyone who connects to my network will see no ads, even in YouTube and Disney+, without having to install anything.

Yeah, I’ve also read some solutions that you can install on your router in order to block the calls for the ad’s IPs, or something like that. I want to try it out, eventually.

 

[63W]

The free tier of NextDNS is limited to 300K requests per month. One can easily hit that limit, especially if done on the whole home network. Once the limit has been hit, ads will start showing for the rest of the month unless you subscribe or have multiple accounts.


Read their Privacy Policy. At the end of the day, it's up to you to decide whether you trust them or not.

There are other similar alternatives as well, such as AdGuard DNS and Control D. I currently use the latter on my home network for the other features it provides. Anyone who connects to my network will see no ads, even in YouTube and Disney+, without having to install anything.

Ive never hit 300k and I work from home. You can set up separate accounts for each device.

 

[ProTruckDriver]

1Blocker does this as well if you enable scripts. The main difference here is that Ghostery has all its features under one toggle, and as a result, the warning always displays; 1Blocker split things up into multiple toggles, and the warning only displays if that specific feature is enabled.

This prompt doesn't necessarily mean it's tracking you. It needs to be able to access the webpage code in order to do stuff, such as removing awkward spacing and boxes where ads would have been, and other advanced filtering. So if sensitive information is displaying on the page, they could see it. It's just a matter of whether you trust the developer or not to allow it.

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Thank you for the information. I bought the "Lifetime" subscription of 1Blocker for Safari a few weeks ago and like it. It's doing a great job in blocking and no slow downs. 👍

 

[tosbsas]

new competition coming up ´- uBO Lite - looks pretty good so far

 

[Heat_Fan89]

I use Lockdown privacy for ads and it has a built in VPN. It does a nice job with ads, just be careful not to signup for the subscription.

 

[Artemiz]

Thank you for the information. I bought the "Lifetime" subscription of 1Blocker for Safari a few weeks ago and like it. It's doing a great job in blocking and no slow downs. 👍

I vote for uBlock Origin Lite as well. Frequently updates filters, open-source and free. He’d been in the business for a very long time.

1Blocker hasn’t been as effective as it used to be with ads not being blocked at all on some websites. uBO isn’t perfect but Optimal setting usually takes care of everything. Every now and then it takes an extra refresh but besides that it’s been great.

 

[ProTruckDriver]

Damn, after reading this whole thread I just remembered that in 2008 I bought a Lifetime Subscription of AdGuard for my Windows PC's when I was using Windows. It took me awhile to get into my AdGuard account because they upgraded the website and license keys. I'm going to give AdGuard a shot and see what it does on my Mac. Hopefully the lifetime license key will work on the Mac. 🙂

 

[ProTruckDriver]

Damn, after reading this whole thread I just remembered that in 2008 I bought a Lifetime Subscription of AdGuard for my Windows PC's when I was using Windows. It took me awhile to get into my AdGuard account because they upgraded the website and license keys. I'm going to give AdGuard a shot and see what it does on my Mac. Hopefully the lifetime license key will work on the Mac. 🙂

My 18 year old license worked. Now running AdGuard Mini Premium on Safari. Safari is super fast, no slowdowns at all running AdGuard and blocking is excellent. I had a few questions about AdGuard and I sent the questions via in-browser support. Within 1 hour I had my answers from Support. Excellent Support so far.👍

 

[NoBoMac]

new competition coming up ´- uBO Lite - looks pretty good so far

Saw this thread and gave this a try the other day. Not as good as AdGuard IMO. uBO had some issues with some pages, let ads sneak in on others. Switched back to AG.

 

[iLuddite]

Wipr 2

 

[Hans300]

I use AdGuard and really happy !

I even pay for yearly subscription.

 

[gwang73]

Saw this thread and gave this a try the other day. Not as good as AdGuard IMO. uBO had some issues with some pages, let ads sneak in on others. Switched back to AG.

uBO Light even isn't as good as the OG uBlock Origin for Chrome.
I've been using Wipr2 forever and been quite happy with it. I prefer wBlock over AdGuard as it has a much smaller memory footprint and uses the same rules.