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Unsolved Tracker and Ad Blocking Question
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Hi Everyone,
I was wondering firstly, what are the best filters that I should use with the Ad and Tracker Blocker feature within Vivaldi?
Secondly, does adding more filters SLOW the browser down? Is there any relation with having more filters and slower browsing that anyone has noticed?
Thanks
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@inspectorlunge Hello and Welcome to the Vivaldi Community
I would recommend sticking with the default lists first to see how they work for you. They are very good standard lists, and should block most of ads and trackers out there.
Maybe once you are more comfortable understanding how blocklists work, you could try enabling EasyPrivacy (Tracker), maybe "English (Peter Lowe's list)" as well as any language-specific list if you visit local sites with a lot of ads. But note that some of the local lists are not always well-maintained and might cause more sites to break than you'd want.
Enabling both the "Remove Cookie Warnings" lists is also good if you get annoyed by those constant cookie warnings.
Other than that, it's important to understand what blocklists are, and that Vivaldi does not actually control the content of these lists, they are just loaded from external sources. Sometimes they break sites, and you need to be able to understand how to disable the blocker and make site exceptions.
Make sure to read: https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/tracking-and-ad-blocking/
Also you might read someone out there recommending some huge random lists that blocks "everything". Do not trust these people, and do not load in random lists you find on the net unless you properly understand how they work.
Secondly, does adding more filters SLOW the browser down?
No, I don' think so. If anything, blocking more requests should speed up browsing as you skip a lot of useless ads and trackers. Unless the lists you add are HUGE (I've seen some really bad examples) - remember the browser has to parse these lists as well.
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@pathduck Thank you for the information!
I had some 'extra' filters I had added from online but I removed them and the browser seems speedier, maybe they had big lists as you said, there was an AdGuard tracking filter and and Adguard filter and some others.
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I wouldn't worry about the blockers slowing the browser down, I have never seen that and they may actually speed the browser up.
Here is my list of recommend blockers: (they block most trackers and ads)
Trackers: DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar EasyPrivacy Ads: ABP Anti Circumvention List Allow ads from partners (support Vivaldi) EasyList Remove Cookie Warnings (I dont care about cookies) ["This will remove all annoying cookie warnings"]
