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Ask HN: What's your favorite ad/popup blocker?
I reached some breaking point today, every site I visited had some annoying "support" bubble in the bottom showing messages and popups trying to get me to sign up for something or other. I have never really used a popup blocker before and would love to hear suggestions.
- YellowBits 7y agoThe Brave Browser
- Tomte 7y agouBlock Origin plus PiHole for ad blocking. Popup blocking is in Firefox itself.
- wuliwong 7y agoThanks, another friend of mine uses ublock and is happy.
- HNKingpin 7y agouMatrix offers me complete control over the requests that get allowed or blocked, so there's no need for anything else.
- ziddoap 7y agoWould second uMatrix, although it can be high maintanence and/or intimidating to get used to. uBlock Origin is my go-to, and low maintenance enough that my elderly parents have it installed and haven't called to yell at me yet.
- verdverm 7y agoGrimd, DNS based blocker, like pihole
- busymom0 7y agoI would second uBlock Origin too! Been using it for 3 or 4 years I think and works great on Chrome and Safari too. Make sure it's "uBlock Origin" and not uBlock only. You can read up on difference between "uBlock Origin" and "uBlock".
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- wuliwong 7y agoInteresting. I had ublock :). I switched to origin. Thanks.
- ParameterOne 7y agoagree, and the element picker is nice to use also
- decasteve 7y agoNoScript + uBlock Origin. Takes some time to whitelist a bunch of things in NoScript but after a while the combination of the two make for a much better/faster browsing experience.
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- sanketskasar 7y agoUBlock Original + Ghostery. Pretty much handles everything.