Is UBlacklist what you’re looking for? I don’t fully get the question, but I know that blocks urls from search engines (it supports Google, duckduckgo and others, but you’d need to double check.)
I am going to ask a stupid question here, in no stupid questions. I have never used an ad blocker. I’ve been on the internet since before the world wide web was invented. What, exactly, is the purpose of ad blockers?
Ad blocking or ad filtering is a software capability for blocking or altering online advertising in a web browser, an application or a network. This may be done using browser extensions or other methods.
So you somehow have never noticed how miserable ads make life/the Internet? Even if you ignore all the privacy and overconsumption concerns, you still have the fact that ads slow down websites tremendously, and often literally obscure content from view. Somehow you’ve used the Internet for decades and that’s all lost on you. Trolldar is going off hard.
Because ads are annoying as fuck, slow down websites and collect all kinds of data from your browser to analyze your web browsing behavior and then sell that information to the highest bidder
It does what the name suggests: it blocks ads on web pages leaving you with a lot cleaner interface. On some pages the change is purely cosmetic but others like YouTube are completely unusable without one. Why don’t just give it a shot and see by yourself. Look for the uBlock Origin extension for your browser and see how you like it. You can easily toggle it on and off and see how different sites look. It takes literally 30 seconds to install.
Thanks, Thorny Insight. I’ve never felt the need to install an ad blocker, but perhaps I should, just to see the internet the way everyone else does these days.
Definitely do! uBlock Origin is the best one around, and it’s completely free. Even without configuring anything the defaults block 99% of annoying ads.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen ads with ublock on Firefox. Just the reminders that I am using an ad block and whether I could turn it off, pretty please?
Lucky you! Just install one right now and experience a less annoying, faster loading web for the first time! Also install consent-o-matic while you’re at it.
Userscript loaders are fine, they don’t do anything on their own, they just load custom user-defined JavaScript on a specified website. Just make sure not to use Tampermonkey, it’s proprietary. Use Violentmonkey instead, it’s completely open source on GitHub.
That’s the first time I’ve heard that Tampermonkey is collecting user data. Could you please elaborate on that? I’m currently using it and will definitely switch if that is the case.
Oh I’m very sorry, I confused Tampermonkey with another extension that stole user data. Tampermonkey is still proprietary though, which was my reason for avoiding it. Violentmonkey works just as well, but it’s open source.
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