SUMMARY: #adblockers are often super shady, and two of the few trustworthy ones are uBlock Origin and #Firefox Focus.
Please Stop Using Adblock (But Not Why You Think)
https://medium.com/@trybravery/please-stop-using-adblock-but-not-why-you-think-13280e76c8e7
@Treppenwitz
One minor addition: Firefox (non-Focus) fully supports uBlock Origin on Android.
@gcupc @Treppenwitz just what I wanted to add right now
been using it for a good while with no issues
@Michcioperz @gcupc @Treppenwitz
Some neat projects worth checking out:
Privacy Badger is interesting as it blocks things blacklists won’t catch. I use it daily.
Brave is an interesting browser that bundles creator incentives. I use it occasionally.
@sillystring @gcupc @Treppenwitz Brave only works reasonably if the creator has signed up for the payments, thus it is worthless at the time. Not to mention that the desktop version of it is an Electron app.
I tried using Flattr (as a Firefox desktop extension) for a while, which has a similar concept, but is a bit more centralized and bound to a fiat currency instead of a crypto token, but it's also barely used.
@sillystring @Michcioperz @gcupc @Treppenwitz I am going to add to the suggestions pile #AdNauseum
It is based on uBlock Origin, but also acts as a protest of obfuscation: https://adnauseam.io/
Paper explaining the general method: https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/resources/trackmenot2009.pdf
@sillystring
@Michcioperz @Treppenwitz
I don't recommend Brave, because it has the same bad incentives that Adblock Plus, and the money goes to worst person in the world ™ Brendan Eich.