Blocking Ads in 2023

[seri0us]

Hi guys

 

[GoysGoneWild]

Brave or Librewolf.

Personally I do not really care one way or another about a browser being based on Chromium. Brave has already proven that they can handle pretty much whatever changes Google makes to it, so arguments about it being susceptible or under Googles influence fall pretty flat to me.

 

[Dread First]

Brave or Librewolf.

Personally I do not really care one way or another about a browser being based on Chromium. Brave has already proven that they can handle pretty much whatever changes Google makes to it, so arguments about it being susceptible or under Googles influence fall pretty flat to me.

Firefox ESR, with a custom (read: hardened) profile > LibreWolf > Brave.

LibreWolf and hardened Firefox ESR are roughly equivalent. Go with LibreWolf if you have no interest in WebGL. Brave is a decent enough browser, but I’m an autistic enthusiast of the igneous vulpine.

 

[Raging Capybara]

Anyone here knows if it's possible to block Twitch ads?

That's the only site that gives me problems with ads. No matter what script or plug-in I use, nothing works.

 

[Dread First]

Anyone here knows if it's possible to block Twitch ads?

That's the only site that gives me problems with ads. No matter what script or plug-in I use, nothing works.

I personally haven't encountered a single Twitch ad, but I'm an autistic retard with multiple layers of ad blocking active.

uBlock Origin on Medium Mode basically lets me pick and choose what scripts/frames I want to load at any given time. I also have Pi-Hole running on my local network, so I don't encounter a single ad even if I'm watching Twitch on mobile or my TV.

I would like to point out that I rarely (if ever) watch Twitch for more than 30 minutes to an hour at a time. I can't tell you if ads show up at that short of a time frame because I don't know how long I should even watch to see a wretched ad in the first place.

 

[Thorndyke Special]

Is a pi-hole effective at blocking smart tv ads/commercials? These are really the ones that bug me the most.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Anyone here knows if it's possible to block Twitch ads?

That's the only site that gives me problems with ads. No matter what script or plug-in I use, nothing works.

uMatrix. It's uBlock but advanced. They say you can use this alone without uBlock but i use both together just as a precaution.

These are my settings for Twitch.

 

[teriyakiburns]

For android, get fennec from the F-Droid store. It's firefox mobile with most of the tracking shit removed, as well as none of the main branch limitations on extensions.

 

[Dread First]

uMatrix. It's uBlock but advanced. They say you can use this alone without uBlock but i use both together just as a precaution.

These are my settings for Twitch.
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uMatrix was sadly discontinued by Gorhill to focus more heavily on optimising uBlock Medium. It’s been this way since 2020ish.

A crying shame that no one bothered to fork it to keep it going either.

Is a pi-hole effective at blocking smart tv ads/commercials? These are really the ones that bug me the most.

In my experience? It depends on how heavily you wanna hit the adlists. I personally have all the green and blue Firebog lists active, with explicit whitelisting for Kiwi Farms for added insurance.

As a general rule of thumb: the more domains you have blocked, the more likely it is that you’ll break something. The Green only Firebog lists for Pi-Hole are more than enough for most people because they’re tested to have minimal breakage.

Smart TV tracking, analytics, and telemetry are blocked off quite extensively in my experience, but ads on YouTube and Hulu are unfortunately much more difficult to block.

 

[Dogechu_Prime]

Just set up a basic PiHole with a Raspberry Pi, or just run Brave. I set up the PH and haven't had issues since.

 

[Sy Sperling]

use brave and install adnauseum

This is what I've been doing for like a year now.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Librewolf is just Firefox with a different skin and configuration options.

You don't really need anything except ublock origin and you can even set it up in a way where computer illiterate relatives can watch their jutoobs but still won't get any ads.

For Android there's Fennec, which is the only firefox-incarnation for android which doesn't suck ass. You can also install the full-fledged ublock origin in it. I consider the ability to block 3rd party scripts on websites absolutely essential and think I'd just rather stop browsing the internet before skipping on that. Have you looked at your average news website unfiltered lately? It's unusable. I'd even consider it dangerous.

1) Brave’s internal adblocker (Shields) are entirely independent of ManifestV3. It’s a fork-specific modification that Google has no jurisdiction over.

Google screwed with the layout of YouTube (the website) expressively with the goal to make it load slower in other browsers. There's industries where stuff like that would be outright illegal.They're utterly amoral and *will* find ways to fuck with Shields. Everything except a complete fork will make the removal of effective adblocking in Brave inevitable.

Otherwise, don't call it a grave, it's the future your chose. If you give one Browser such a massive market advantage you cannot be surprised if the people running that browser will abuse it. Tech companies have proven themselves over and over again to abuse every little sliver of power they get their grubby hands onto and it should come at absolutely no surprise. I blame the inability/unwillingness of lawmakers to understand the internet and their inherent wish to get a slice of the cake and abuse it's powers too.

I can only advise to not bring politics into it and choose whatever works best at the moment. Chrome doesn't let you adblock? Use firefox. Firefox doesn't let you adblock anymore and now chrome does and is the underdog? Use Chrome. A third party fork does even better, use that. Don't get attached to a piece of software like that, people will exploit you for it.

 

[Kosher Dill]

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Hi guys

I'm not using LibreWolf until those autists stop forcing your browser's time zone to UTC so as not to "time zone dox" yourself.
Last time I looked into this, someone had proposed letting it behave normally and the response was "What if a dissident at an Antarctic research station is using LibreWolf and down there your time zone can dox you within a mile?"
I'll keep that in mind next time I'm hunting penguins.

 

[Ghostface Killah]

I use Brave in conjunction with AdGuard, Decentraleyes, LocalCDN, uBlock Origin and Adblock Plus.

 

[dick brain]

For android, get fennec from the F-Droid store. It's firefox mobile with most of the tracking shit removed, as well as none of the main branch limitations on extensions.

See also Mull.

For whatever it's worth, on Android I main Firefox with uBlock Origin and Ghostery, but also mess with Brave, Fennec, Mull and Kiwi for reasons, all with uBlock Origin and few issues.

On desktop, I run Firefox 69 with Adguard, uBlock Origin and Ghostery, and switch to up-to-date Chromium with the same plugins if a page loads incorrectly.

But most importantly, the solution I recommend to literally everyone:

Spoiler

spend less time online

 

[Fuck It We'll Do It Live]

Brave is still going to support Manifest V2, so old adons are going to work on it.

After installing AdNauseam on Brave, I got this error for the extension in the "manage extensions" page:

Manifest version 2 is deprecated, and support will be removed in 2023.

uMatrix was sadly discontinued by Gorhill to focus more heavily on optimising uBlock Medium. It’s been this way since 2020ish.

A crying shame that no one bothered to fork it to keep it going either.

I use the ηMatrix fork of uMatrix for Pale Moon: https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/ematrix/

Alessio Vanni / eMatrix · GitLab

Fork of uMatrix, a browser extension to black/white list requests.

gitlab.com

 

[Dread First]

I'm not using LibreWolf until those autists stop forcing your browser's time zone to UTC so as not to "time zone dox" yourself.
Last time I looked into this, someone had proposed letting it behave normally and the response was "What if a dissident at an Antarctic research station is using LibreWolf and down there your time zone can dox you within a mile?"
I'll keep that in mind next time I'm hunting penguins.

That time zone setting you’re talking about is the “privacy.resistFingerprinting” flag in about:config being set to “true.” This also has the effect of randomising your Canvas and WebGL fingerprintS. Disable the flag and install CanvasBlocker for no time zone shenanigans.

 

[Kosher Dill]

That time zone setting you’re talking about is the “privacy.resistFingerprinting” flag in about:config being set to “true.” This also has the effect of randomising your Canvas and WebGL fingerprintS.

Yes, I knew about the flag but not that it only did those 3 specific things. If you can emulate all the "good parts" of the flag that easily, then we're getting somewhere.

 

[Dread First]

Yes, I knew about the flag but not that it only did those 3 specific things. If you can emulate all the "good parts" of the flag that easily, then we're getting somewhere.

You're getting a bit dismissive of p.RFP though it's my fault for not being more thorough. It's a feature that was implemented directly from the Tor Uplift project iirc.

After installing AdNauseam on Brave, I got this error for the extension in the "manage extensions" page:

FYI - uBlock Origin Lite is Gorhill's initial attempt at making a ManifestV3-compliant uBlock Origin. Set the slider 3/4 notches of the way to "optimal" and make sure you enable permissions. It will function identically to uBlock Origin with only static filtering and all of the filters enabled. Unfortunately, Medium Mode functionality has yet to be ported over (and I don't think it will be due to MV3's API limitations).

I use the ηMatrix fork of uMatrix for Pale Moon: https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/ematrix/

Alessio Vanni / eMatrix · GitLab

Fork of uMatrix, a browser extension to black/white list requests.

gitlab.com

Get your fucking Pale Moon autist filth out of here. I miss XUL just like everyone else, but you niggers who cling to Pale Moon could've been giving SeaMonkey love all this time.

 

[NickGer]

After installing AdNauseam on Brave, I got this error for the extension in the "manage extensions" page:


I use the ηMatrix fork of uMatrix for Pale Moon: https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/ematrix/

Alessio Vanni / eMatrix · GitLab

Fork of uMatrix, a browser extension to black/white list requests.

gitlab.com

Really strange considering Brave is supposed to be working with Manifest V2 and support those kind of extensions. Never had that kind of error.