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For a reader, however, there may be other reasons for using adblock than just to avoid ads. Any ad network today is indistinguishable from malware and exploit kits as I've said before, they have obfuscated js, hidden iframes, many forked redirects, invasive tracking, suspicious TLDs, control data in the URLs... Ad blockers are used as much for privacy reasons as security reasons.

If you use adblockers, AND YOU SHOULD BE, Forbes told you to disable them and even sent you to a landing page preventing you from seeing their content. Turns out Forbes' ad network was serving up malicious ads that were infecting people's PC's and possibly phones. Adblocking is a critical security tool, and strongly suggest everyone use at least one.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en

https://adblockplus.org/

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

And if you really want to lock down your browser play with Ghostery.

https://www.ghostery.com/

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Don't use Adblock Plus. Use uBlock Origin.

Adblock Plus has a strange design flaw that they would have to rewrite the script over. Basically it uses one giant CSS document to strip out the ads, and it uses the same CSS document on all websites you view. It can cause some serious performance issues with your browser.

uBlock Origin uses the same blocklists, yet splits it up into smaller chunks of relevant CSS for each website. It has all the same features and then some, and also has major performance gains.

Honestly if you really want to lock down your browser, Ghostery isn't the solution either. uBlock's default deny mode is for the really insane (IE: me). Mix that with NoScript and you don't need any additional blockers, and in theory you don't even need NoScript.

posted 3028 days ago