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Comment by pupppet | Hacker News Reader

Just curious, is anyone intentionally not using an ad blocker?

Me. I want websites to actually face the consequences of excessive advertising, like driving me away. I'm not happy with the idea of more ads being shoved at a smaller fraction of the visitors.

On desktop sure, but just plain safari on iPhone. If I hit an article like this one I just click straight off it.

There is actually a fairly good ad blocker for safari available. It's called AdGuard and works quite well.

It got ad blocker blocker :(

I didn't notice that ad blocker blocker on Firefox + uBlock Origin.

Neither did I using Brave.

There need to be ad blocker blocker blockers!

If by ad blocker you mean a browser plugin, then I do not have one of these.

I use a hosts file that ignores many ad hosts at the DNS level.

No need for a low performance solution.

uBlock Origin does not noticeably affect the responsiveness of my T100 from 2013 with a Bay Trail atom CPU and 2GB RAM. What exactly are you browsing on?

Intel i7 1165g7

Anyway, I don't want to waste CPU cycles or battery life on such things.

Do you regularly update the blacklist yourself? Ublock origin uses close to no memory or cpu for me, and offers instantaneous, effortless disabling in times where it is needed.

Of course I do update the list!

It is taken from here https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

And I have another ~40 entries not included in that list.

You should try it. It is another layer of protection in case you want to keep using uBlock Origin.

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