What Ad-Blocker are you currently using?

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What about if we are on a firefox fork like waterfox or icedragon?
Try installing this until the fork maintainer issues an update. Worked fine for my Android version of Firefox (which doesn't have an update from the Play Store for some reason)
 
The king, uBlock Origin.
On my phone I have AdAway.
i use the hosts file. No website can block that lol. The ad place holders are either gone or says cant connect.

If anyone wants the file let me know. I created it myself from looking at a sites code to get the ad urls..
That's a rather inefficient way to block ads though since they may use many subdomains and each one has to be added to the hosts file...

What about if we are on a firefox fork like waterfox or icedragon?
Waterfox supports legacy addons. IDK about IceDragon.
 
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I have been using ABP for the last decade and a half perhaps, and I am not willing to make the effort to change it for something better unless it becomes very useless/annoying. It's just the general rule for things you don't care enough about: if it is not broken, don't fix it.
 
The king, uBlock Origin.
On my phone I have AdAway.

That's a rather inefficient way to block ads though since they may use many subdomains and each one has to be added to the hosts file...


Waterfox supports legacy addons. IDK about IceDragon.

Perhaps, But it suits my needs well
 
That's a rather inefficient way to block ads though since they may use many subdomains and each one has to be added to the hosts file...
There are tons of hosts file generators out there. You can compile one from all the lists used by browser based blockers. You won't get element hiding, but that's really not a big deal.
 
There are tons of hosts file generators out there. You can compile one from all the lists used by browser based blockers. You won't get element hiding, but that's really not a big deal.
How? Adblockers use wildcards, and those don't translate to a hosts file.
 
How? Adblockers use wildcards, and those don't translate to a hosts file.
Block list providers tend to have a hosts file friendly alternative to their lists. I linked to a Python script on the first page that works like AdAway in that it takes any online source(s) fed to it and compiles it into a hosts file. Here's mine that AdAway generated, which blocks countless amounts of ad and malicious servers, as well as having a list for mobile specific campaigns. The sources are listed in the file.
 

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Block list providers tend to have a hosts file friendly alternative to their lists. I linked to a Python script on the first page that works like AdAway in that it takes any online source(s) fed to it and compiles it into a hosts file. Here's mine that AdAway generated, which blocks countless amounts of ad and malicious servers, as well as having a list for mobile specific campaigns. The sources are listed in the file.
AdAway literally just combines multiple hosts files, not exactly the same thing.
 

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