Good ad blocker for Vivaldi
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Hi guys!
Could you advice a good ad blocker for Vivaldi? Because I'm so bored with all these ads and banners. How do you think it's better to use extension or desktop application?
Thank you in advance.//MODEDIT: Moved from the Vivaldi browser for Windows category.
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I would recommend using only a browser extension. That way if you end up installing one that is malicious, the damage is limited to only your browser.
However, if you do seem to have other applications that are also full of ads, it may be worth trying.
I'd recommend uBlock Origin as well.
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uBlock Origin in conjunction with Nano Defender.
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I use nano Adblocker with nano Defender
nano Defender is an anti adblock blocker, and works with uBlock Origin, but better with nano Adblocker. -
@vezunchik said in Good ad blocker for Vivaldi:
I recommend AdLock because it block all ads without any exceptions.
Good, but not free, (Trial 14 days)
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@JohnConnorBear i am very much aware of it and most of them are truly tricky but i found no dangers by this one so far.
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@JohnConnorBear you need to read well because i did not write any of what you are actually representing there. i said MOST OF ADBLOCKERS ARE TRICKY. this one adlock is NOT (so far).
edit: actually you should learn to read what is actually written and not what you are making up in your dreamy head.
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@JohnConnorBear and @urfausto, please stay polite! Read our Code of Conduct, if you need a reminder of the rules.
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@JohnConnorBear i get you this scares the shit out of you lol but i am just telling my personal experience with it. you can do what you want it will not change my mind based upon your delusional feelings. every ad blocker is shit to me and works shit. when this one will fail me too, i will just go with vivaldi built-in adblock and nothing else. it's utterly useless any adblocker. at least this adlock is pretty easy alike vivaldi's it only has a filters list and it just works: no sites blanking and no slower navigation.
moreover another thing you are making up: i did not buy anything or either encouraged someone else to do it, another thing you can't f** read. the extension is free from the webstore.
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@jane-n is there a rule that forbids to misrepresent, distort, twist, manipulate, warp and misquote the posts of other users?
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A good habit is to look for independent comparative reviews of any software or extension, before installing it. Apart from avoiding unpleasant surprises, it also allows you to see if it is worth using a commercial version or that another FOSS offers the same.
According to this Adlock is certainly a good product, but it is also not better than others OpenSource.
Most of the known adblockers offer similar functionality, usually using the same filters, which can also be added to the list of Vivaldi blockers (for now only Desktop) -
@JohnConnorBear , naturally there are many comparisons on the net, but I am not referring to those that appear on any blog, but to pages that carry out an exhaustive test of each aspect of the product, for example AVtest for security soft.
Sure, you can read the documentation for a product, but this one on the front line is intended to highlight the product itself and as reliable as an advertisement for a universal cleaner, introduced by an actor dressed as a scientist, on TV.
To check if an extension or / and a browser complies with the promised privacy, I just need to check it on pages like Browserleaks or similar.
In the documentations I am more interested if in the conditions and in the privacy it is short and concise, distrusting those with sections of several pages in legal language for very technically correct that they are, but only understandable by legal professionals. -
@JohnConnorBear , not exactly what I mean, I am referring to reviews that exhaustively specify the positive points, as well as the negative points of each one. As in everything, no soft is perfect in all aspects, it can only be the subjective form according to the preferences of each user.
Extensions and also Vivaldi are not the exceptions either.
Earlier I said that Adlocker is a valid product that does its job, but despite being a commercial paid product, it offers no more than other free and open source products. The documentation that accompany and enhance this product is only a consequence of it, they want to justify why people should prefer this product over free ones.But all this has nothing to do with the product fulfilling its function. Each user must decide for himself if he wants to pay for a product that he can have completely free with the same functionality. -
@JohnConnorBear , I would not buy something that I can have for free, but each user has to know what he does. I am nobody to decide for others which extension can be used and which not.The only thing I can do is say if it works or not, which is easily verifiable if it does.Personally, the Vivaldi ad and trackerblocker are enough for me, where I have added the uBO filters, apart I also have the Privacy Badger. I can even add the ones I have inactive, like Trace and NoScript, to the point that an n/a appears in Browserleaks in each section, but this is only preventing me from being able to navigate fluently.
In other words, I can make Vivaldi bombproof, if I want, without having to resort to commercial products, only with FOSS.
But this is everyone's decision. I can't decide for others -
@JohnConnorBear , yes, this is it. Already in other places when people asked about a good AV, from me they have always received the same answer, that Windows 10 knows how to protect itself very well with an AV as good as the others today.
Perhaps it is convenient to have the AdwCleaner at hand, but this is enough and plenty.
I think that everyone who has been in the computer world since the 90s, should know what is appropriate, but also that those who enter as newbees find a world full of caramels installing everything that is ahead, I do not exclude myself in my beginnings and I have learned the lessons in the hard way.
In the case of Adlock, I cannot say that it is a malware or that it is a bad adblocker, in all the lists it is listed among the best, but if I can warn that it is not better than AdBlock, uBO, nano, AdGuard and others, but in exchange for this it is a commercial soft where he pays without need. From there, everyone should know what he does. -
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