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what are the best ad blocker and can you have to many

Oct 29, 2019 6:26AM PDT

I currently have Firefox as my browser and use the following: Ghostery - privacy ad blocker, privacy badger and ublock origin.

I know there are some that are more hands on, but I want something simple and automatic.

Thanks in advance

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The problem I see
Oct 29, 2019 8:30AM PDT

Is that while those seem to work nice together a few sites break when you block. This is not a bug in those apps but how those sites react to blocking.

You picked what I think are the best.

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Understood
Oct 29, 2019 9:35AM PDT

Thanks for replying

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as far as having too many
Oct 29, 2019 2:32PM PDT

IMO, it is a waste to have more than one. could slow down the page loading and browser over all. I use ublock orgins but I tend to swap around using different ones just to check them out.

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One favorite site does not work well with vpn
Oct 30, 2019 6:12AM PDT

that's why I posted to begin with. Thinking maybe it was my 'ad blockers', or not haven't the right ones. But I disabled them and the issue remained. When I disconnect from the vpn the site works just fine. Using Nordvpn by the way.

Anyway, thanks for replying

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I've seen that
Nov 2, 2019 5:02AM PDT

Not with a VPN but with a newspaper site my better half reads. They look for ad blockers and when they detect one, put up a "please disable" screen and lock the tab. A bypass for a while was to put a second blocker in, which seemed to confuse it. But eventually, they caught up.

But when I disabled both (in Firefox), the algorithm used by the newspaper still detected them and refused to continue until they were removed, just disabling wasn't enough.

They still didn't get their ad revenue, with the ads streaming in, the site is unusable!

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Late reply but NORD
Nov 5, 2019 9:52AM PST

I've seen NORD let you try other locations. If it's not the adblocker then try other countries.