Adguard vs ublock Origin?

Operating Systems & Open Source
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I have been using Adguard for a while. I like the desktop app. Most of my friends seem to suggest ublock. However, one of a my friends is a suggests adguard. So which is better in conjuction with noscript for firefox? Adguard does have a desktop app that I am subscribed to, but I am a noob when it comes to adblockers. I really don’t know what is best so I am wondering if someone here could give me a straight answer.

The only benefit I see with adguard desktop app, is it doesn’t require individual extensions for each browser, it works out of the box for all your browsers.

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I use uBlock and Ghostery. Nothing really gets through, and trust me, I get full screen ads all over the place when I turn them off.

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I use ublock origin and NoScript on FX. A while ago, I used AdBlock, but it seems ublock origin blocks more efficiently, i.e. it blocks more content and runs faster. I don’t know hot it compares to Adguard though. The question is, how does Adguard work? Assuming the traffic is sent via https it is encrypted, so does Adguard try to decrypt it again like various antimalware tools? I wouldn’t want that…

Edit: Meticulously added “origin” to every occurence of ublock, because @ipushpeople mentioned they are not the same.

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I assume then you need someone that has used both.
I haven’t however, been using AdGuard since 2013 and it has saved me from so many malicious redirects I cant even count them all. I have also only used the chrome extension.

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ublock origin (not just ublock) is the go to for pretty much everyone, it became popular because it uses less resources (cpu) than other blockers, personally I rather add an open source extension to my browsers (it’s available for most browsers and most OSes) than installing another piece of software to my computer

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uBlock Origin is open source. So it wins for me in terms of trust. Because remember: whatever addon you use it will see everything you type and every link you click.

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Every time I explain adblockers to my parents, I tell them: remember, ublock ORIGIN

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I would hesitate to use Ghostery apparently they sell user data to advertisers. http://www.businessinsider.com/evidon-sells-ghostery-data-to-advertisers-2013-6

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Its worked fine for me so far. Anything gets passed uB, ghostery kills and what gets by ghostery, UB kills. They send data to places like advertisers to show what ads are getting blocked and what pisses people off the most. They send it to websites too.

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If you have any SBC on hand or you’re willing to buy a PiZero you can install PiHole on it to block all the ads before even opening on any machine that’s connected to your network. Also you can just install uBlock Origin on Chrome and copy all of their domain lists (or any other DNS list from any ad blocker you like) and have the same experience basically. It’s the easiest thing to install ever and it works flawlessly, at least for me.
Also with this solution you can even block windows telemetry if you want. Just create a free gihub account and host on it any list you want or manually add domains to block.

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uBlock Origin + NoScript will give you a similar effect to uBlock Origin + Ghostery.

I would use the former over the latter.

Another layer you can add for security is what @MetalizeYourBrain mentioned which is adding a Pi-Hole as as your primary DNS.

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I use uBlock Origin and have been for a long time, it works very well. No complaints at all.

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uBlock Oirigin, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere, and PiHole on the network.

ADS BEGONE

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You missed one, uMatrix/NoScript.

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Ehh, I’m reasonably safe with my current config.

I think this is dumb to have in 2018; with progressive webapps and all. If somethings definitely malicious, then I just won’t go there.

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I believe the right answer for most techie people is to run uBlock Origin in medium mode. This blocks ads and trackers like uBlock Origin easy mode, plus it also blocks all third-party scripts and iframes by default.

Medium mode offers what I feel to be a reasonable compromise between extreme page damage and being forced to fix every single site you visit (uBO hard mode, Noscript) and just running every script you come across (uBO easy mode).

In medium mode, most sites work out of the box, and those that don’t can be easily fixed by allowing specific domains to run on that specific site.

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