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elektor a day ago

Is this any better than AdGuard?

I’ve heard it’s best to avoid running both but unsure whether this version of uBlock is worth it.

soraminazuki a day ago | parent | next [-]

gorhill has proven his integrity time and time again, and that's hard to beat. He works on uBO because he believes in it and not for profit. It's the one thing that I would value, especially in an ad blocker. This isn't to say that there's anything wrong with AdGuard though.

SOLAR_FIELDS a day ago | parent [-]

Yeah honestly unless the developer can demonstrate that they don't allow ads through from who pay them to be allowed, pretty much no adblocker is going to be fully trustworthy. There will always be an incentive, if the adblocker is popular enough, for the dev to take money from an advertiser to bypass the block.

If I did have to trust any adblocker though, it would be gorhill's.

vehemenz a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Adguard works better right now, at least for my purposes.

I'm not sure why, but uBO Lite randomly stops working at times. I've had to fire up the test page (https://ublockorigin.github.io/uBOL-home/tests/test-filters....) many times after enabling experimental filters, but it just doesn't seem to "stick."

Squarex a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

uBlock is open source. Some people might object AdGuard Russian foundation, but they have distanced themselves from the conflict and employ people in Ukraine.

plutokras 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have no complaints about AdGuard, but I will switch to this. uBlock is the best ad blocker across platforms, and gorhill is a legend.

gruez 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's worse IMO because it doesn't allow for custom rules, which AdGuard does.

65 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've been using Ad Block Pro without any problems.