AdBlock
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
2warn against
Nov 7, 2025first mention
Aug 27, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“For everything else AdBlock Plus works fine.”
“I use AdBlock on Chrome. It is excellent.”
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“throw in Adblock and your exposure is extremely limited”
“AdBlock keeps it usable”
Caveats and dissent
“policy is what caused the shift from AdBlock Plus to uBlock Origin”
“abp stopped playing videos for me”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
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- Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker 1 mention
- TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In 1 mention
- I'm So Tired of Ads 1 mention
- Microsoft Hasn't Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold 1 mention
- Smartphone Mkt to Decline 13% in '26, Largest Drop Ever Due to Memory Shortage 1 mention
Also written as AdBlock Plus, Adblock, Adblock Plus. Data: adblock.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 14
“I use Chrome and adblock plus to access Twitter.”
“policy is what caused the shift from AdBlock Plus to uBlock Origin”
“For everything else AdBlock Plus works fine.”
“I use Adblock”
“I use AdBlock on Chrome. It is excellent.”
“use Safari with the AdBlock add-on”
“On my desktop I just use Adblock.”
“with Safari and AdBlock”
“throw in Adblock and your exposure is extremely limited”
“I use Adblock”
“have you tried using pi-hole or adblock plus”
“abp stopped playing videos for me”
“I use AdBlock”
“AdBlock keeps it usable”