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Ublock origin works fine for me. With Firefox and Librewolf (both bin, the latter from some unofficial repo)

Be aware Youtube is doing lots of A/B testing, in case thats your issue.

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The Firefox page on the Gentoo wiki mentions the add blocker AdNausium. I use that successfully.

On other systems I have just used an add blocking hosts file. Also works pretty well, though not as well as AdNausium. Has the advantage that it applies system wide and does not require any browser plug-in.

Tom



May 26, 2025, 11:51 by [email protected]:

Greetings,

Has anyone succeeded with an ad blocker for Firefox? I've tried the top three recommended and none of them make the slightest difference.

If not Firefox, is there an equivalent browser that can block sponsored entries? The two chrome versions apparently aren't available as binpkgs, and this is just a little machine, poor thing.

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<div dir="auto">The Firefox page on the Gentoo wiki mentions the add blocker AdNausium. I use that successfully.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On other systems I have just used an add blocking hosts file. Also works pretty well,
though not as well as AdNausium. Has the advantage that it applies system wide and does not require any browser plug-in.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Tom<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><

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not Firefox, is there an equivalent browser that can block sponsored <br></div><div dir="auto">entries? The two chrome versions apparently aren't available as binpkgs, and <br></div><div dir="auto">this is just a little machine, poor thing.<br></div><div
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Greetings,

Has anyone succeeded with an ad blocker for Firefox? I've tried the top three recommended and none of them make the slightest difference.

If not Firefox, is there an equivalent browser that can block sponsored entries? The two chrome versions apparently aren't available as binpkgs, and this is just a little machine, poor thing.

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Regards,
Peter.

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I use AdBlock Plus, and it works fine for me.

Out of curiousity, which three have you tried?

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On Mon, May 26 2025 at 15:57:06 +00:00:00, Khaosgrille <[email protected]> wrote:

Ublock origin works fine for me. With Firefox and Librewolf (both
bin, the latter from some unofficial repo)

Be aware Youtube is doing lots of A/B testing, in case thats your
issue.

Also make sure all filter lists are up to date.

Same ublock works pretty damn well

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Am Mon, May 26, 2025 at 04:50:37PM +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey:

Greetings,

Has anyone succeeded with an ad blocker for Firefox? I've tried the top three
recommended and none of them make the slightest difference.

What are those three?

I use a pihole in my home WiFi for all devices. And in my desktop Firefoxes,
I use uMatrix and uBlock Origin. (Mind you, *not* uBlock, that’s a totally different thing).

Back in the past I used mostly noscript and AdBlock Plus. But at some point ABP sold out, so I switched. And then noscript became more and more of a nuisance, because ever more pages stopped working. uMatrix has a similar approach, in that it allows to block various types of files/requests for separate domains. But it allows for rules like “allow scripts for the first-party domain, but never cookes” in a matrix-like widget. Hence the name.

So for some time I used uMatrix alone. But at some point, I got ads in
YouTube again. So I added uBlock Origin back into the mix with only the most popular lists. I didn’t do any deep research into which lists are “the best”.

If not Firefox, is there an equivalent browser that can block sponsored entries? The two chrome versions apparently aren't available as binpkgs

Their adblocking capabilities are greatly reduced anyways these days due to addon manifest v3.

and this is just a little machine, poor thing.

All the more reason to replace ABP with uBlock Origin, as it is more efficient.

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Am Mon, May 26, 2025 at 12:32:08PM -0400 schrieb Jack:

I use AdBlock Plus, and it works fine for me.

You might be interested to switch to uBlock Origin. It is more efficient[0] and has long had its day[1].

[0] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-vs.-ABP:-efficiency-compared [1] uBlock is free, whereas ABP has a subscription model with ad white-lists.
https://allaboutcookies.org/ublock-origin-vs-adblock-plus
https://www.reddit.com/r/Adblock/comments/1e7eegg/dont_use_adblock_plus/

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On Monday, 26 May 2025 16:57:06 British Summer Time Khaosgrille wrote:

Ublock origin works fine for me. With Firefox and Librewolf (both bin, the latter from some unofficial repo)

I've had uBlock Origin installed in Firefox for several years, and I don't remember ever seeing any ads or sponsored posts - until recently, when sponsored posts started appearing in large numbers.

Be aware Youtube is doing lots of A/B testing, in case thats your issue.

I don't use YouTube.

Also make sure all filter lists are up to date.

I can't see how to do that. No such option shows.

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Peter.

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On Wednesday, 28 May 2025 16:13:35 British Summer Time Peter Humphrey wrote:

I've had uBlock Origin installed in Firefox for several years, and I don't remember ever seeing any ads or sponsored posts - until recently, when sponsored posts started appearing in large numbers.

Well, it took a big, 'ard, 'eavy 'ammer, but I've fixed it (I think).

New system installed from scratch [1], not using any of the old binary packages, then new user account for me.

So far, neither ads nor sponsors have shown up.

1. I use bootctl from systemd-utils, but that's the only systemd package in the system. Today I had to hard-mask sys-apps/systemd to get the utils to install; I haven't had to do that before.

Thanks for the suggestions.

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Regards,
Peter.

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