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What Ad Blocker are you using?

TrueBlou said:
I was using AdGuard on iOS and Mac (without the one that reads everything enabled).
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I have this setting disabled as well and can't see any difference in how well it performs. Seems to be an easy decision to have that setting off.
 
I use adblocker, and had a nytimes-google red x ad appear in espn, 3 things i should and want to avoid!
not good, i need to improve the ad blocking
 
I'm using Wipr from the App Store and its brilliant. Easily the most effective & reliable solution I've used in years.
 
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Is Wipr Apple Silicon-native? I can't see that mentioned on the App Store or on their website.
 
LarrySW said:
I have this setting disabled as well and can't see any difference in how well it performs. Seems to be an easy decision to have that setting off.
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On the Mac there are two AdGuard for Safari extensions, "AdGuard Advanced Blocking" and "AdGuard Safari Icon", with the description "Can read sensitive information from webpages, including passwords...". Which one do you have disabled?

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I disabled both of the above extensions and AdGuard for Safari still seems to work fine. I guess the other AdGuard extensions solely rely on the use of the Safari Content Blocking API provided by Apple.

Seems like they made the AdGuard Safari Icon extension optional a couple of years ago:
adguard.com

AdGuard for Safari update notice

AdGuard is the best way to get rid of annoying ads and online tracking and protect your computer from malware. Make your web surfing fast, safe and ad-free
adguard.com adguard.com
 
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Adguard Pro.
I will have to check my privacy settings as I'm sure I've enabled the option to access everything.
 
Using 1Blocker and it is good. By the way, you can see which apps are Intel or native on the System Report, under Software>Applications
 
forzagaribaldi said:
Won’t be for everyone but I have pi-hole running on a raspberry pi which provides blocking for all devices on our home network. Reduces need to run extensions on individual devices and we have some old iPads that don’t support ad blocking at all.
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Using the same. Also if you already have a Synology NAS. You can install Pi-Hole on it using Docker.

 
Run Diversion in my router.
And I have Ka-block! on my mac, phone and iPad. (for the mac it really isn't needed since it's an mac mini that is always within my network and Diversion blocks most ads anyway)
 
Not sure if this has been mentioned ( I've read the thread, but missed it, if it has been mentioned), if you're using a VPN, some of the most popular products have pretty good ad blocking.

I'm using Surf Shark and it works well with ad blocking, I've also had experience with Nord VPN, works well as well.

I can't recall if they are both Mac OS and iOS compatible to be honest.

Only throwing this in there, in case you are using a compatible VPN and don't need to spend extra $$.
 
lostom said:
Not sure if this has been mentioned ( I've read the thread, but missed it, if it has been mentioned), if you're using a VPN, some of the most popular products have pretty good ad blocking.

I'm using Surf Shark and it works well with ad blocking, I've also had experience with Nord VPN, works well as well.

I can't recall if they are both Mac OS and iOS compatible to be honest.

Only throwing this in there, in case you are using a compatible VPN and don't need to spend extra $$.
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Somehow I dislike the idea of routing all my traffic through some third party service/app provider.
I have VPN, but it's my own VPN, to access my own network.
 
Simply change to Brave Browser. Ad blocker and anti tracking built in. Add to this a great (optional) innovative rewards system for sites you follow and ads you do want to see plus a great browser, you can forget about ad blocking extensions and apps completely.
Brave can also now be made default browser in iOS and iPad OS.
I also use Duck Duck Go anti tracking search engine too but that's just me.
Honestly, why use a browser and or search engine that tracks and monitors your browsing habits then download an extension from the same developer to block the content it sends you?
 
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Rodan52 said:
Simply change to Brave Browser. Ad blocker and anti tracking built in. Add to this a great (optional) innovative rewards system for sites you follow and ads you do want to see plus a great browser, you can forget about ad blocking extensions and apps completely.
Brave can also now be made default browser in iOS and iPad OS.
I also use Duck Duck Go anti tracking search engine too but that's just me.
Honestly, why use a browser and or search engine that tracks and monitors your browsing habits then download an extension from the same developer to block the content it sends you?
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Brave Browser does not block ads good enough, and somehow I don't trust this Brave Browser, it's too new to be trusted in my opinion, e.g. I would never do OnlineBanking with it. It's forced to use the build-in Safari Webkit Engine anyway. I also see no reason to use it, if not even the engine does differ to Safari's one. It just adds another "potentially insecure" software layer to the systems browser.

On macOS/iOS I simply use Safari + a extension which don't have access to all the sites I browse.
On Windows I use Firefox + uBlock Origin, both mature and opensource, and can be safely trusted.
I also don't use YouTube Apps, that's why i also need an adblocker that blocks "all" YouTube Ads in my Browser.

Let's see how good Wipr on iOS and macOS will be...

DuckDuckGo is a good choice, I use that, too.
 
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