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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they use FLoC now to track their users so they can afford to drop the cookies

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Exactly, they're trying to kill the competition but they're obviously not going to damage their business.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Breaking loose the discussion: Whats the better add-on: adguard or ublock origin?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The general consensus is ublock origin. It's best on Firefox and I've had no issues with it

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of the internet is unusable without ublock origin IMO.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Especially on mobile. News sites are legit impossible to use, let alone tolerate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I use AdGuard on my iPad, they're probably the best ad blocker for iOS. But yeah, uBlock Origin is the go-to everywhere else.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Adnaseum is better. It actively tries to help websites by "clicking through" all tracking ads without accepting a return payload so it is safe for you. This means the website you are browsing gets the income from the ad clicks and you have an ad free experience. This also obsficates your online presence by clicking everything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not going to be very useful for very long. Advertisers will very quickly wise up and find a way to detect this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The plugin has been active for 4+ years and still works. It will get detected as more people use Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Adnas, even though it's based on ublock, I've noticed it doesn't catch an ad occasionally even when set up the same.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

uBlock. Adguard is probably fine for what it is but uBlock Origins is far and away the gold standard.

[–] DrDeadCrash 5 points 1 year ago

I've been using ad-nauseam on Firefox: https://adnauseam.io/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago