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frazorth@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For those curious how efficient these things are, recently I did some tests using this tool (clear your cache between tests).

  I had decided to install an additional DNS blocker on my OpenWRT router so I was curious how these methods stack up against each other.

  I tested uBlock Origin, the Firefox built-in ETP (Enhanced Tracking Protection) and the router adblock (only a modest 65k IPs in the default set, you can add more).

  • Everything off gives me a score of only 3% blocked. Those 3% must be stuff so outrageous that they probably get blocked by upstream DNS servers.
  • Firefox ETP only, set to strict: 41%
  • Router adblock only: 69%
  • Firefox + router both on: 83%
  • uBlock Origin (alone or in combination): 97%

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  • Rexios@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I got a 100% on iOS using Wipr. Not sure that’s accurate if ublock origin didn’t even get a 100%…

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    • Aethr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Must be a different statistic, I believe OPs stats are “percent of total traffic blocked” so 100% means your entire network would be blocked…

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  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What list are you using on your router? I’m using Steven Black’s list (which is just an amalgamation of a bunch of other lists) for my PiHole and uBlock filter list, and Firefox scored 99% (only failing the cosmetic static ad test).

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    • StopSpazzing@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      While easy to do, issue with doing this is you don’t give active views to the lists that get combine so the owners of those lists are less inclined to update/maintain them. I would recommend if the list is useful to get each of the combine lists he uses and add them all separately.

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    • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s the Adblock package for OpenWRT. The default selection is adaway, adguard, disconnect, yoyo, which is 3 x 10k lists and one 30k list.

      I see that it has support for compiling Steve Black lists but SB can vary 50 - 500k and I only have a router with 128 MB RAM. I’ll have to experiment with the “standard” SB list, see if it fits and if it makes any difference.

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• Bebo@literature.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same. Didn’t even get any youtube pop-ups regarding adblocker detection. Also no slowing down observed (as was reported in some articles a while back).

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I got a pop up once, I cleared the ublock cache and never had any issues after.

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  • eek2121@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I saw a popup once, refreshed and it was gone. 🤣

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  • L_Acacia@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Those slowndown article were clickbait / bad journalism , youtube hasn’t been slowing down the site for adblock user.

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• HarkMahlberg@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I moved from Vivaldi to Firefox during the crackdown, signed out all of my Google accounts, and immediately noticed the problems went away. Sorry Vivaldi...

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  • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve just stumbled over Floorp, which to my understanding has many of Vivaldis features Firefox doesn’t, like a sidebar, and is based on Firefox

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• viking@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same. Not one interruption during the crackdown.

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• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve noticed the occasional jump cut forwards in video where there should’ve been ads, just two or three seconds.

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• BenVimes@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve gotten the pop-up once or twice, but updating uBlock fixed that.

  I have instead noticed a large decrease in quality, things like frozen images/pages and endless buffering. I don’t know if all that is related, but it did start around the time YouTube started cracking down on ad blockers.

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