top | item 44337289

(no title)

elektor | 8 months ago

Is this any better than AdGuard?

I’ve heard it’s best to avoid running both but unsure whether this version of uBlock is worth it.

discuss

order

soraminazuki|8 months ago

gorhill has proven his integrity time and time again, and that's hard to beat. He works on uBO because he believes in it and not for profit. It's the one thing that I would value, especially in an ad blocker. This isn't to say that there's anything wrong with AdGuard though.

SOLAR_FIELDS|8 months ago

Yeah honestly unless the developer can demonstrate that they don't allow ads through from who pay them to be allowed, pretty much no adblocker is going to be fully trustworthy. There will always be an incentive, if the adblocker is popular enough, for the dev to take money from an advertiser to bypass the block.

If I did have to trust any adblocker though, it would be gorhill's.

Squarex|8 months ago

uBlock is open source. Some people might object AdGuard Russian foundation, but they have distanced themselves from the conflict and employ people in Ukraine.

slowmotiony|8 months ago

Adguard is Russian? Thanks, just cancelled my subscription.

plutokras|8 months ago

I have no complaints about AdGuard, but I will switch to this. uBlock is the best ad blocker across platforms, and gorhill is a legend.

gruez|8 months ago

It's worse IMO because it doesn't allow for custom rules, which AdGuard does.

65|8 months ago

I've been using Ad Block Pro without any problems.