Ask HN: What's your favorite ad/popup blocker?

7 points·wuliwong··10 comments

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.

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I 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".

Interesting. I had ublock :). I switched to origin. Thanks.

agree, and the element picker is nice to use also

NoScript + 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.

Would 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.

UBlock Original + Ghostery. Pretty much handles everything.

uBlock Origin plus PiHole for ad blocking.

Popup blocking is in Firefox itself.

Thanks, another friend of mine uses ublock and is happy.

uMatrix offers me complete control over the requests that get allowed or blocked, so there's no need for anything else.

Grimd, DNS based blocker, like pihole

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