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NOT AN ISSUE: explanation why I move away from AG rules! #87

Closed sillyjaybird closed 2 months ago

sillyjaybird commented 3 months ago

I see you're moving away from AG but it's not related to security or privacy concerns. I'm curious as to what your motivation is? What browser extension will you use when the change to MV3 rollout is complete? TIA.

Kees1958 commented 3 months ago

AdGuard is good adblocking software, but my work laptop started disabling AdGuard extension because of group policies set by our company. Due to a large government contract which was recently acquired, the allowed browser ectensions are limited by my employer on work laptops. In the adblocker category I can only choose out of Ghostery and AdblockPlus.

The limitation in adblocker choice is probably geo-political related. Ghostery and ABP are developed by German companies. AdGuard's HQ is in Nicosia, but is probably only a postbox office for legal and fiscal purposes (like Kaspersky's holding company in London is).

Because I like to keep my setup on my hone desktop the same as my work laptop, I decided to move to AdBlockPlus on my desktop also. I am using ABP on my work laptop since I made my the Personal_Blocklist_ABP (2 months ago) without issues. ABP is not as good as AG in blocking youtube ads, but performs similar on most other websites.

sillyjaybird commented 3 months ago

Thank you my friend!

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 11:24 AM Kees1958 @.***> wrote:

AdGuard is good adblocking software, but my work laptop started disabling AdGuard because of group policies set by our company. Due to a large government contract acquired it is not allowed to install extensions anymore. In the adblocker category I can only choose out of Ghostery and AdblockPlus (which are devloped by German companieis).

Because I like to keep my setup on my hone desktop the same as my work laptop, I decided to move to AdBlockPlus. I am using ABP on my work laptop since I made my the Personal_Blocklist_ABP (2 months ago). ABP is not as good as AG in blocking youtube ads, but performs similar or nearly as good on most other websites.

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Kees1958 commented 2 months ago

Edit: I changed from AdBlockPlus to Ghostery, because Ghostery now allows to add simple user rules and ghostery does better job than ABP (same clean websites as with AdGuard).

Kees1958 commented 1 month ago

EDIT

Due to further safety restrictions on my work (can't view mail anymore through virtual browser or use the off-line upload mode for office documents) , I don't use my Desktop anymore for work, so I removed my Windows dual boot and only using Linux Mint 21.3 partition on my desktop. On Linux I am using Ungoogled Chromium with uBlockOrigin lite. uBOL now offers AdGuard Dutch filter, which works well for me. I use Brave as secondary browser on Linux, only to copy widevine from brave to ungoogled.

Ungoogled runs in Flatpak with stripped rights (e.g only allow sound, gpu acceleration and acesss to xdg-download) and super tight website permissions (blocked/disabled all except images, sound, scripts only allow a few TLD's and session only on device data). Only other extension is No-Eval, which together with disabling V8 JIT, allowing javascript on a few Top Level Domains and sandboxing should lower script based threats to absolute minimum).