{"slug": "adblock", "name": "AdBlock", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 13, "warners": 2, "score": 3.494, "rising": 0.02, "first": "2025-11-07", "latest": "2026-08-27", "why": "throw in Adblock and your exposure is extremely limited", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 8, "compare": 0, "warn": 2}, "spark": [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "throw in Adblock and your exposure is extremely limited", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://getadblock.com/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["AdBlock", "AdBlock Plus", "Adblock", "Adblock Plus"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 786946145, "item_id": 49184134, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184134", "by": "bjackman", "date": "2026-08-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For everything else AdBlock Plus works fine.", "excerpt": "Firefox has this too, it's useful. However I only find that I use it for websites that have shit CSS that makes it hard to read on mobile. For everything else AdBlock Plus works fine.", "context": "", "use_case": "ad blocking", "switched_from": "", "story": "TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In"}, {"id": 762579168, "item_id": 47661198, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661198", "by": "throwaway2037", "date": "2026-04-06", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use AdBlock on Chrome.  It is excellent.", "excerpt": "I use AdBlock on Chrome. It is excellent. Do you not like it?", "context": "", "use_case": "Ad blocking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Hasn't Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold"}, {"id": 744401730, "item_id": 46525108, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525108", "by": "eertami", "date": "2026-01-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "throw in Adblock and your exposure is extremely limited", "excerpt": "If you're aware of it and think you're susceptible then you can make it impossible to be influenced by it. Ie, You can disable all 'related videos'/feeds/home page on Youtube with Unhook, and sponsored segments with SponsorBlock. I'll probably never see a Youtube thumbnail for the rest of my life, throw in Adblock and your exposure is extremely limited. > Sales guys love people like that. You can also easily never sp", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds"}, {"id": 733537010, "item_id": 45846063, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45846063", "by": "CuriouslyC", "date": "2025-11-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "AdBlock keeps it usable", "excerpt": "I used to be a big digital music hoarder. I hate Spotify, YouTube is the thing that killed music downloading for me. It has pretty much everything worth listening to, it's free, AdBlock keeps it usable, and it has a great diversity of other content.", "context": "", "use_case": "Blocking YouTube ads", "switched_from": "", "story": "Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 789150369, "item_id": 49321898, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321898", "by": "jjmarr", "date": "2026-08-16", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "policy is what caused the shift from AdBlock Plus to uBlock Origin", "excerpt": "There are multiple standarss for better advertisements[1][2] and AdBlock Plus introduced \"acceptable ads\" whitelisting if your ad meets one of the criteria.[3] Consumers do not want this and this \"acceptable ads\" policy is what caused the shift from AdBlock Plus to uBlock Origin. I'd rather the government sponsor a roundtable between advertisers/browser manufacturers to discuss coming up with a legally protected \"acc", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"}, {"id": 736906353, "item_id": 46056647, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46056647", "by": "nubinetwork", "date": "2025-11-26", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "abp stopped playing videos for me", "excerpt": "I've been using YouTube.com/tv with a Samsung agent for years. Although I did have to recently switch from abp to ubo because abp stopped playing videos for me.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["ad blocking", "accessing twitter", "blocking ads", "blocking youtube ads"], "compared": [{"slug": "ublock-origin", "name": "uBlock Origin", "co": 6, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 2}, {"slug": "firefox", "name": "Firefox", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "safari", "name": "Safari", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "google-chrome", "name": "Google Chrome", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "smarttube", "name": "SmartTube", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445356", "title": "Ask HN: What are you using to access x.com at the moment?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319633", "title": "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182041", "title": "TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346507", "title": "I'm So Tired of Ads", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651703", "title": "Microsoft Hasn't Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47172664", "title": "Smartphone Mkt to Decline 13% in '26, Largest Drop Ever Due to Memory Shortage", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1, "warn": 1}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1, "warn": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 791473377, "item_id": 49467086, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467086", "by": "mikewarot", "date": "2026-08-27", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Chrome and adblock plus to access Twitter.", "excerpt": "I use Chrome and adblock plus to access Twitter. I use ut for Facebook, and pretty much everything. I avoid \"apps\" like the spy infested plague they are.", "context": "", "use_case": "accessing Twitter", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you using to access x.com at the moment?"}, {"id": 789150369, "item_id": 49321898, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321898", "by": "jjmarr", "date": "2026-08-16", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "policy is what caused the shift from AdBlock Plus to uBlock Origin", "excerpt": "There are multiple standarss for better advertisements[1][2] and AdBlock Plus introduced \"acceptable ads\" whitelisting if your ad meets one of the criteria.[3] Consumers do not want this and this \"acceptable ads\" policy is what caused the shift from AdBlock Plus to uBlock Origin. I'd rather the government sponsor a roundtable between advertisers/browser manufacturers to discuss coming up with a legally protected \"acc", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"}, {"id": 786946145, "item_id": 49184134, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184134", "by": "bjackman", "date": "2026-08-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For everything else AdBlock Plus works fine.", "excerpt": "Firefox has this too, it's useful. However I only find that I use it for websites that have shit CSS that makes it hard to read on mobile. For everything else AdBlock Plus works fine.", "context": "", "use_case": "ad blocking", "switched_from": "", "story": "TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In"}, {"id": 773558208, "item_id": 48347388, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347388", "by": "jppope", "date": "2026-05-31", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Adblock", "excerpt": "I don't really see that many ads to be honest. I'm not on social media (except HN), I use Adblock, plus I just don't consume a lot of the media that the general population does. I totally understand what the article is about though... I went on to my wife's instagram and her ad load is unbelievable. She probably has to look at 1 ad for ever 3 reels or images or whatever the hell they call them. I couldn't imagine hav", "context": "", "use_case": "blocking ads", "switched_from": "", "story": "I'm So Tired of Ads"}, {"id": 762579168, "item_id": 47661198, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661198", "by": "throwaway2037", "date": "2026-04-06", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use AdBlock on Chrome.  It is excellent.", "excerpt": "I use AdBlock on Chrome. It is excellent. Do you not like it?", "context": "", "use_case": "Ad blocking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Hasn't Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold"}, {"id": 754875428, "item_id": 47179714, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179714", "by": "ssl-3", "date": "2026-02-27", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "use Safari with the AdBlock add-on", "excerpt": "Strange. On PC, I use Firefox with the uBlock Origin extension and I see no ads on Youtube. Same with my pocket supercomputer: Firefox works great on Android, including for Youtube. And it uses extensions like the PC version does. No ads there, either. On the BFT in the living room, I have a Google-manufactuered Google TV device. It runs SmartTube, and displays no ads on Youtube. I even have an iPad that I use primar", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Smartphone Mkt to Decline 13% in '26, Largest Drop Ever Due to Memory Shortage"}, {"id": 750713649, "item_id": 46919603, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919603", "by": "snailmailman", "date": "2026-02-06", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "On my desktop I just use Adblock.", "excerpt": "I used to run YouTube with \u201cad targeting\u201d turned off. The ads were 100% scams. Lots of AI slop. Deepfakes of celebrities pitching all sorts of scams. Lots of nsfw products and even occasionally illegal things like drugs or guns. Also lots of ads in languages I do not speak. I recently learned that if you turn on ad targeting you can block certain ads and never see them again. So I\u2019ve turned it on just to block the wo", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams"}, {"id": 749456180, "item_id": 46841011, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841011", "by": "ssl-3", "date": "2026-01-31", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "with Safari and AdBlock", "excerpt": "We're only discussing one particular website, though, aren't we? Except for on the TV (where I use SmartTube), all of my Youtube activity is done with web browsers. Otherwise: On both big computers and with my pocket supercomputer alike, that means Firefox and uBlock Origin. It works quite well for navigating Youtube's website and watching videos. An old iPad that I have suffers from Apple's deliberately baked-in lac", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other Browsers"}, {"id": 744401730, "item_id": 46525108, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525108", "by": "eertami", "date": "2026-01-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "throw in Adblock and your exposure is extremely limited", "excerpt": "If you're aware of it and think you're susceptible then you can make it impossible to be influenced by it. Ie, You can disable all 'related videos'/feeds/home page on Youtube with Unhook, and sponsored segments with SponsorBlock. I'll probably never see a Youtube thumbnail for the rest of my life, throw in Adblock and your exposure is extremely limited. > Sales guys love people like that. You can also easily never sp", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds"}, {"id": 743192544, "item_id": 46449534, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449534", "by": "sixtyj", "date": "2025-12-31", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Adblock", "excerpt": "Similar people who used animated banners in '00s. And as they don\u2019t use Posthog or any other tool for monitoring users\u2019 behaviour, they don\u2019t see patterns. Yes, websites popups, asynchronous ads or autoplay videos are such annoying that someone should come with a solution. I think that a lot of people would pay for it - e.g. collected money could be redistributed back to visited sites. (As micropayment projects weren", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups"}, {"id": 740859425, "item_id": 46303714, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303714", "by": "samgranieri", "date": "2025-12-17", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "have you tried using pi-hole or adblock plus", "excerpt": "have you tried using pi-hole or adblock plus running on a raspberry pi on your network? whenever i'm off my home wifi network, i have wireguard configured to connect home and get me that ad blocking. it's so nice. yes, i prefer to use brave for personal stuff and i use edge for work stuff (reasons,,, don't ask)", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"}, {"id": 736906353, "item_id": 46056647, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46056647", "by": "nubinetwork", "date": "2025-11-26", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "abp stopped playing videos for me", "excerpt": "I've been using YouTube.com/tv with a Samsung agent for years. Although I did have to recently switch from abp to ubo because abp stopped playing videos for me.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"}, {"id": 736394162, "item_id": 46024635, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024635", "by": "JohnBooty", "date": "2025-11-23", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use AdBlock", "excerpt": "Firefox performs poorly on Google properties (Gmail is fine, YouTube, gsuite, admin consoles are pretty bad) I switch between FF and Chrome pretty frequently, and I've never felt any issues with YT or Gsuite. Haven't used the rest in multiple browsers so I can't compare. There are some caveats to mention. One, I use AdBlock, and I'm subscribed to YT Premium so I don't see ads. Two, the documents I edit with GSuite ar", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy"}, {"id": 733537010, "item_id": 45846063, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45846063", "by": "CuriouslyC", "date": "2025-11-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "AdBlock keeps it usable", "excerpt": "I used to be a big digital music hoarder. I hate Spotify, YouTube is the thing that killed music downloading for me. It has pretty much everything worth listening to, it's free, AdBlock keeps it usable, and it has a great diversity of other content.", "context": "", "use_case": "Blocking YouTube ads", "switched_from": "", "story": "Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site"}]}