Ghostery and ad blockers

[altrenda]

I know this has been shared here before, but I thought I would share it.
We provide on site support for several of our clients. One of the biggest complaints is slowness. I try to distinguish between "computer slow", like opening a Word Doc, and " Internet Slow", pages opening slowly, etc. The biggest complaint is internet slow. This is on connections of 50/50 or higher.
After trying various things, memory, optimization, whatever, I found something that makes a difference.

I have started putting the Ghostery extension in Chrome. I have used other ad blockers, like uBlock Origin, but I have had the most improvement with Ghostery. In some cases the difference is striking.

And using the Ghostery browser on my Android phone makes a huge difference and makes it much nicer to use.

I do whitelist sites that I want to support or that don't use ads that block the whole screen.

 

[mrapoc]

Haven't heard of ghostery. I use adaway on android for total ad destruction (adverts are OTT on android). I do white list too such as TN as the ads aren't ridiculous

 

[TechPJC]

Are you aware of this Test?

uBlock Origin is on the 1st place...

 

[cypress]

Very good article posted. I just read through alot of it. I been using Adblock Plus for the longest but definitely notice a slow down when it comes to using it on Internet Explorer on some machines, along with Firefox.

I just now installed the uBlock Origin on my personal machine to test it, I will see how it turns out.

 

[NYJimbo]

I just switched to Ghostery too. I found that on some machines Adblock plus was taking forever to load or eating up all the ram. So uninstalled that and installed Ghostery download while using the browser you want to protect:

https://www.ghostery.com/en/try-us/download-add-on/

After the install I always exit out then go back in and then let it run the quick 4 page "intro" which allows you to make setting changes. I decline their offer to "improve things", always turn off the "alerts bubble" and click on the advertising block, you see these as you go "NEXT->" through the intro. When done of course there is no "FINISHED" it just leaves you there with a back option, typical with so many apps today. So I exit out of the browser and next time back in it works fine.

I found that I loads faster, especially on low ram systems like netbooks and on some websites with comment sections if you had adblock plus you would either not see the comments or you couldn't click on them or you might get an error posting. This doesn't seem to happen with Ghostery.

I'm going to keep using this on my machines and if it's stable , I will start putting that on all new machines as ABP seems to have become problematic.

 

[cypress]

I will try Ghostery on Internet Explorer and removed AdBlock Plus since I see uBlock does not have a plugin for IE.

 

[glennd]

Are you aware of this Test?

uBlock is on the 1st place

Hmmm must give it a try...

 

[altrenda]

I like uBlock Origin a lot. Not to be confused with the lesser uBlock. I have used it for several months, but I find Ghostery to be similar in performance, but easier to use and teach people how to allow only the necessary elements on a page needed by some sites. Whitelisting and temporary lifting of the blocking is easier too.

 

[Eagle21]

I like uBlock Origin a lot..

Me too.
I used to use Adblock Plus (block adverts) + NoScript (block scripts), and have changed to
uBlock Origin (block adverts) + uMatrix (block scripts), and am very pleased with their performance.

uMatrix is very powerful, but it takes time to learn how to use it, and I would not recommend it to end users.

 

[mrapoc]

Oh - I've been using standard ublock lol - i think ?? =/

 

[ZenTree]

uBlock Origin, no script and admuncher for me. Covers pretty much everything .