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The best ad blockers for Chrome

AdBlock Adblock Plus uBlock Origin AdGuard Ghostery
  1. Ad blocker for Chrome, Safari and Opera on desktop and Safari for iOS devices.
    AdBlock does participate in the “Acceptable Ads” initiative, so there are ads it allows through (if you choose) that meet certain requirements. AdBlock is also known to a be little resource heavy, especially if you like to have a lot of tabs open at one time, and there have been some claims of it not blocking YouTube ads particularly well.

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 24 social mentions

  2. AdBlock Plus is a browser extension for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and several other popular browsers that prevents intrusive ads like pop-ups and malicious code from appearing on websites you visit.
    Note that around five years ago, AdBlock Plus was accused of secretly offering to push ads through in exchange for under-the-table payments, which AdBlock Plus didn’t exactly deny. The organization appears to make unique deals with larger organizations that may let some extra ads through.

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Privacy 65 social mentions

  3. Popular and efficient blocker for Chromium, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Thunderbird.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Entirely free and open source, uBlock Origin is another popular ad blocking extension for Google Chrome because it does a great job of blocking ads without taxing your system in the process.

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Privacy 3 social mentions

  4. Surf the Web Ad-Free and Safely. Shield up!
    Another popular ad blocker for Chrome is AdGuard. Capable of effectively blocking almost all ads across static web pages, video streaming sites, and social networks, AdGuard keeps an eye out for pop-up and pop-under ads, too.

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Block Ads 85 social mentions

  5. Privacy tool for transparency and control
    The only real drawback of Ghostery is that you do need to spend some time to tell it how you want it to operate. While other ad blockers function well enough all-in, if you try to do that with Ghostery you may find many aspects of the web non-functional. Take a little time to get it right though and Ghostery may become your favorite tool for customizing your web browsing experience.

    #Security & Privacy #Privacy #Ad Blockers

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