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

7 points by wuliwong ↗ HN
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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Tomte
uBlock Origin plus PiHole for ad blocking.

Popup blocking is in Firefox itself.

wuliwong
Thanks, another friend of mine uses ublock and is happy.
HNKingpin
uMatrix offers me complete control over the requests that get allowed or blocked, so there's no need for anything else.
ziddoap
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.

verdverm
Grimd, DNS based blocker, like pihole
busymom0
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".
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wuliwong
Interesting. I had ublock :). I switched to origin. Thanks.
ParameterOne
agree, and the element picker is nice to use also
decasteve
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.

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sanketskasar
UBlock Original + Ghostery. Pretty much handles everything.