How to choose an ad blocker. Enabling ad blocking in the Yandex browser. uBlock Origin ad blocker

Below is a list of the best free ad blockers. But none of them is perfect, so it is most effective to use several solutions at once.

Types of Advertising

When choosing the best blockers, we adhered to the following criteria:

• Completely free;
• Good user ratings;
• No need to register an account to use;
• Recently updated (within the last 12 months);
• Implementation as a plugin for at least one browser or operating system;
• Blocks “media ads” (pop-ups, banners, videos, static images, wallpapers, text ads);
• Blocks advertisements in videos (for example, on YouTube).

To test blockers, we used several sites with different types of advertisements. Among them: Forbes.com, Fark.com, YouTube and OrlandoSentinel.com.
On Orlando Sentinel, we found aggressive ad formats that most ad blockers cannot block. In fact, only a few of them effectively blocked all ads shown on the Orlando Sentinel.

We've tested each of these free tools based on the criteria provided and given them a rating. In addition, the ad blockers listed below, with the exception of Stend Fair Adblocker, are open source software.

The best ad blockers - browser plugins and applications

The best option for blocking ads is to install a specialized plugin or use a browser with a built-in blocker. They interact with sites much more accurately than standalone programs running in the background on your computer.

Stands Fair AdBlocker
It is only available for the Google Chrome browser. With this plugin you can block all types of advertising. But it is only available as an add-on for the Google Chrome browser.
Stands Fair AdBlocker is not designed to block ad blocks, although it can be used for that as well. The development company believes in honest advertising and rewards users who create white lists of ads shown on sites.

Luckily, Stands does a great job of blocking all other ads. Including the aggressive advertising formats shown on the Orlando Sentinel. Plus display ads, autoplay videos, and YouTube ads.

Rating: 7/7

Main advantages: Block ads on Facebook and Google search.

Works with: Google Chrome

AdBuard AdBlock
AdGuard AdBlock was able to block all types of ads. But the biggest disadvantage of this ad blocker is that all the features are only available in the premium version. However, the difference between blocker versions is explained only in the reference documentation.

Many users have rated AdBuard AdBlock positively. It has been downloaded over 4 million times and received high ratings.
When we tested it, it was one of the ad blockers that not only effectively blocked ads shown on the Orlando Sentinel website, but also blocked advertising frames with the word “advertisement.”

Rating: 7/7

Main advantages: Possibility to convert whitelist to blacklist.

Works with: Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Yandex Browser.

Opera Browser
One of the fastest and most productive browsers. He was one of the first to offer his users a built-in ad blocker.

Once you enable the ad blocker in your settings, it blocks almost every ad you come across. But the browser was unable to block interstitial ads on the Forbes website (blocks of quotes that appear before articles). Most other ad units were blocked.
In addition, the Opera ad blocker successfully blocked advertisements shown on the Orlando Sentinel.

Rating: 7/7

Main advantages: built into a popular browser, easy whitelisting.

Works: with Opera.

Adblock Plus
Is the most popular ad blocking software with over 10 million downloads in the Google Chrome browser alone. This is a free and open source project. Adblock Plus is the basis for many other free blockers.

By default, Adblock Plus is designed to only block ads that are considered intrusive or potentially harmful. Therefore, it requires additional configuration.
If you want to block most ads (including auto-playing videos), you'll need to disable the "Allow some non-intrusive ads" option in Settings. But even in this case, ABP does not block everything.

Adblock Plus was one of the tools that failed to do anything about the ads shown on the Orlando Sentinel. Unfortunately, even the “element blocking” function could not help. ABP is good and popular, but far from perfect.

Rating: 6.5 / 7

Main advantages: presence of anti-blocking filter.

Works with: Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Yandex Browser, iOS, Android.

uBlock AdBlocker Plus
Unlike other tools, uBlock AdBlocker Plus is easy to use. However, there are some things that the developer could improve. For example, the blocker's website is just a page with the name of the plugin and no additional information.

Block AdBlocker Plus effectively blocks most advertisements, but still lets some through. For example, it did not block the automatic playback of advertising on one of the sites.

When some advertisements were loading, I used the "element blocking" feature to block specific advertisements on the webpage. For example, on the Orlando Sentinel, element blocking worked fine. And its use did not lead to a page reload (as was the case with other ad blockers).

Rating: 6.5 / 7

Main advantages: easy to use, ability to lock elements.

Works with: Google Chrome.

uBlock Plus Adblocker
The biggest drawback of this plugin is that it has a clunky interface. There are several settings that are activated using switches. But most of the work involves digging into the parameters. However, uBlock Plus Adblocker effectively blocked all advertisements, including autoplay videos.

The main advantage of the plugin is the presence of a large library of third-party filters. The tool also includes advanced custom settings that allow you to create your own content filters.
During testing, uBlock Plus Adblocker blocked most advertisements. But I couldn't do anything about the banner ads shown on the Orlando Sentinel.

Rating: 6.5 / 7

Main advantages: filters elements and unsafe advertisements.

Works with: Google Chrome.

AdBlocker Genesis Plus
If you have used uBlock Origin or AdBlock Plus, this plugin is for you. AdBlocker Genesis Plus is a fork of other popular plugins. It uses the same basic source code, but implements many of its own features.

Its user interface is slightly different, but the ad blocking functionality is the same. The plugin's developer claims to have specifically removed tracking code from the uBlock/AdBlock Plus source code to ensure greater privacy.

This ad blocker has a high rating (4.34 out of 5) based on over 100,000 ratings. But I found that Genesis Plus doesn't block all ads. The plugin blocked simple display ads on one site (Fark.com), but was unable to block a display ad on the Orlando Sentinel.

Rating: 6/7

Main advantages: no tracking code, simple whitelist button, block items button.

Works with: Google Chrome.

Adblock Ultimate
Open source project. The tool allows you to deal with most advertisements. In testing, it was able to block YouTube ads and most display ads on websites. This ad blocker has high ratings: 4.84 out of 5 from Google Chrome users and over 600,000 installations.

The plugin was unable to handle the ads shown on the Orlando Sentinel. It did not block ads broadcast on this site at all. But for those who only need to cut out most of the ads, this is a good option. Unfortunately, the plugin has not been updated for over a year. Because of this, his rating was lowered.

Rating: 6/7

Main advantages: Quick “item blocking” feature that allows you to instantly block any advertisements.

Works with: Google Chrome.

NoScript

This tool is only suitable for Firefox and is more of a script blocker than an ad blocker. NoScript prevents all types of scripts from loading on web pages: JavaScript, Java, Flash and others. You can allow certain types of scripts to be loaded. But by default, the tool applies a fairly “hard” filter.

As a result of its work, most display ads are blocked. This includes aggressive advertising on the Orlando Sentinel, which other tools could not cope with. But NoScript does not block ads in videos at all.

Rating: 5.5/7

Main advantages: Complete blocking of scripts.

Works with: Firefox.

Why aren't Privacy Badger and Ghostery on this list?

You may have heard about the popular ad blockers Privacy Badger and Ghostery. The fact is that these plugins are not designed to block ads, but to refuse ads and other elements of sites that violate user privacy. As a result, they both block certain types of advertisements. But first and foremost, the tools are aimed at protecting privacy.

Blocking ads in browsers has become a necessary measure in recent years: some sites abuse advertising so much that visiting them causes irritation. So which browser ad blockers were the best in 2016?

What types of ad blockers are there for browsers?

According to world statistics, two browsers are the most popular: Chrome and Firefox. Therefore, for our testing, we selected the following ad blockers for these web browsers:

1. AdBlock for Chrome

The most famous ad blocker for Chrome. According to statistics, it was downloaded by more than 200 million users. A version of AdBlock was also released for Firefox, but for some unknown reason Firefox removed it from the extensions page. AdBlock allows you to enable a reasonable ad option for YouTube and Google search, but it is disabled by default.

2. AdBlock Plus for Chrome and Firefox

An equally well-known ad blocker, but its effectiveness is questionable because it introduced “white lists” for advertisements. This extension is available for Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer web browsers. It also works in Android browsers.

3. AdBlock Pro for Chrome

Same as AdBlock Plus, but with a simplified interface and without a whitelist. The extension icon is located right in the address bar and when clicked it offers only 3 options: disable, create a filter and enter settings.

4. Adguard for Chrome and Firefox

Adguard is easy to use and allows you to quickly add additional blocking scripts. The main product of Adguard is a shareware application that is installed on your OS and does not require the installation of add-ons or extensions in the browser.

5. AdRemover for Chrome

Based on AdBlock scripts and identical to it (except for regular intrusive requests for project support). The differences between blockers are mainly cosmetic.

6. Ghostery for Chrome and Firefox

Blocks analytical scripts, widgets, web beacons, privacy scripts and advertising. Allows you to enable and disable scripts separately for each site. Also available for Opera, IE, Safari and mobile OS.

7. Simply Block Ads! for Chrome

Another Adblock clone. It has not been updated since the end of 2014 and there is a possibility that not all advertising will be filtered out. However, it is very easy to use and is the only browser extension that does not send usage statistics to the developers.

8. SuperBlock AdBlocker for Chrome

Created based on Adblock by the same developer who made AdRemover. Contains minor changes to the filter list.

9. μ Adblock for Firefox

A primitive blocker in which you do not need to delve into the settings. Allows you to separately enable or disable social media buttons. Hasn't been updated for a long time.

10. µBlock Origin for Chrome and Firefox

• AdBlock Edge for Firefox

The developer does not currently support the project.

• AdvertBan for Firefox

It has not been updated since 2012 and is therefore ineffective.

• AdBlock Lite for Chrome and Firefox

The project is no longer supported, so some advertising is not blocked.

• AdBlock Super for Chrome

Ad blocker test

To avoid inaccuracies in the test, we selected 10 different sites (news agencies, gaming portals). On each of them, we turned on the ad blocker and refreshed the web page 10 times, and then calculated the average for the parameters. For Google Chrome it is:

Page loading time. The time it takes for a web page to fully load. Caching is disabled. This setting can be viewed on the Network tab in the Developer Tools.

Amount of RAM usage. The RAM consumed by the extension can be viewed in Chrome Task Manager (opened by pressing Shift + Esc). We took the maximum value of 10 page loads.

Unfortunately, in Mozilla Firefox it is not possible to view CPU and memory usage for each extension, so we only measured page load time. Also, for the purity of the experiment, we tested the page loading speed without blocking ads.

Tests were carried out on a laptop with a Core Duo 2.2GHz core, 4 GB of RAM, Windows 7 OS and a Wi-Fi connection. All ad blockers are configured by default, with the exception of Ghostery, in which we selected the “Block ads only” option during installation.

You can see the overall test result in front of you.

Results for Chrome:

• Page loading time. The result shows that the ad blocker reduces page load time by two-thirds. The page displays fastest with μBlock, and slowest with Adblock Plus.
• RAM usage. Ghostery performed best with a maximum consumption of 37 MB of memory, and the worst was SuperBlock, which “ate” 113 MB.
μBlock performed well here, but AdBlock Plus turned out to be the most resource-intensive.

Results for Firefox:

• Page loading time. Firefox is generally slower to load pages than Chrome. In terms of page loading time, all ad blockers were on par, with the exception of µBlock Origin, which was only 0.4 seconds ahead of the others.

Based on the test results, we have compiled a leaderboard of the best browser ad blockers in 2016, which includes Adguard, Ghostery and µBlock Origin:

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The Internet is literally flooded with all kinds of advertising videos, text blocks, banners and similar methods of advertising products. After viewing a cluttered site, there is a desire to remove everything unnecessary from the page in order to easily study the information. To turn off all advertising blocks, the Yandex browser has ad blockers, some of them are already built-in, while others are installed as extensions from online stores. Various anti-banners help to leave only information that is of direct benefit to the reader; they block everything else.

Anti-banners for Yandex browser work on a fairly simple principle. It is better to consider it with an example:

In fact, all anti-banners for blocking ads in the Yandex browser work according to this algorithm. There is also a slightly different blocking method, used by VPN extensions with an ad blocking function. It involves pre-loading content onto the plugin server, where it is filtered. The finished page is sent to the end user.

Ways to block ads using built-in Yandex Browser tools

The Yandex web browser already has pre-installed and completely free functions for blocking ads. They are aimed at protecting the user from inappropriate, shocking advertising, as well as resource-intensive flash advertising. Mostly text advertising is not affected, except for adult content.

There are 2 extensions active in the browser by default:

Both extensions can be found on the “Settings” page, in the “Blocking inappropriate ads” section, as well as on the “Add-ons” tab, in the “Online Security” column. In the “Add-ons” section there are 2 more extensions of this group:

As a conclusion: it is better to leave the first 2 additions enabled, the third is optional.

Rating of ad blocker plugins for Yandex browser on PC

Let’s consider the installation process for each extension in advance, because it is approximately identical:

Important! You should not install several extensions at the same time, this will lead to unnecessary load on the browser and long page loading times. It is better to use one high-quality extension.

AdGuard - the best ad blocker for Yandex browser

We can call AdGuard the best ad blocker for the Yandex web browser due to its efficient and accurate work. The plugin correctly determines which block is advertising and which is not.

Other benefits of the AdGuard extension:

Just install the add-on and it will immediately start blocking ads.

AdBlock

It is one of the best extensions that are very popular. The top plugin has most of the benefits of AdGuard. Both extensions are direct analogues. Here we can also manage the list of exceptions, connect new databases for filtering, and it is possible to delete elements from sites manually.

The extension received second place due to the introduction of a controversial functionality – “Acceptable Ads”. The essence of the function is that the blocker skips part of the advertisement that it considers acceptable. This is good for decent website owners who pay the bills for website maintenance through advertising. Some users find advertising of any kind unacceptable.

We can disable the “Acceptable Ads” function in the “Settings” section:

Ghostery

The extension specializes not only in ad blocking. The main purpose of the plugin is to ensure a high level of confidentiality. The add-on not only removes advertising, but also disables tracking tools. Both actions have a positive effect on page loading speed. The main advantage of the application is its high-quality locking. During testing, not a single advertising banner was able to bypass the filter.

uBlock Origin

The uBlock extension, like other plugins on the list, is completely free to distribute. To confirm the effectiveness of the module, we present the fact that the application uses the same filtering lists as AdBlock. If desired, we can add more filtering lists, but they are not particularly necessary. Additionally, uBlock protects against malware and notifies you of threats from dangerous sites. The extension protects against leakage of local IP information via WebRTC.

The plugin has a lot of additional advantages:

AdBlock Plus (ABP)

This is one of the oldest extensions in the anti-banner environment. The top-end ad protector is still popular, and in terms of quality of work it is approximately equal to its analogues. ABP comprehensively blocks unwanted advertising and copes with the task quite well. Its important advantage is the ability to manually block any elements on the page.

During the test, ABP did not perform at its best; it missed part of the advertising on VK. VKontakte is one of the most popular services; even if advertising appears here, there is a high risk of encountering it on other sites. Of course, we can include additional filter lists, but this is extra work.

Applications for blocking ads on YouTube, VKontakte, Facebook

The network also has a number of highly specialized extensions designed for one resource. Mostly such plugins are developed for VK, YouTube, Facebook.

List of blockers for services:

These are good analogues of the blockers from the previously described rating, but they only work on one site.

How to block ads for free in Yandex browser on Android

Some ad blockers for Yandex browser also work on Android. Their list is much smaller than ad blockers for Yandex browser on PC, but even these extensions are enough. The reduction in the number of plugins is due to the operating system and the inability to download add-ons from the Opera store.

• uBlock Plus AdBlocker. The best extension for any gadget: smartphone, tablet. It cleans website pages well of advertising;
• Adblock Genesis Plus (As of 10/23/2019, the extension is not available in the Chrome store). Quite a popular ad blocker for Yandex browser on tablets and smartphones. We can install on any device with the Android operating system.

Today, the article presented the most successful extensions from the group of ad blockers for the computer and mobile versions of the Yandex browser. The list is not limited to them; there are other extensions, but they are practically not supported and often skip ads. The ad blockers listed in the article help Yandex browser users forget about advertising forever and increase page loading speed.

Hello! Nowadays, the problem of viruses is not very acute - most users already generally understand what can be opened and what is highly discouraged... and modern Windows 10 is already less vulnerable to malware. And what do most users use a computer for? — surf the Internet and watch a movie. But with browsers, not everything is so simple, so the issue of blocking ads in the browser is more relevant than ever before.

If you are interested in the issue of ad blocking... or you have started to notice ads where there were never any (and even worse if advertising is already popping up in the browser), then I can tell you with confidence that you are not alone, and I will try to explain to you how to get rid of this illness.

How to block ads in your browser - simple steps to a clean Internet

• Advertising, which was deliberately installed by the site owner, is the most common and easiest method of advertising to block.
• Crashing, infuriating advertising on all sites... pop-up windows, spontaneous opening of the browser, various casinos and other nonsense - it is much more difficult to treat, but it’s possible (the problem is that your computer is showing you ads)

Initially, I want to show the basic setting of ad blocking in the browser (if this does not help, then you most likely have advertising modules or AdWare as they are called).

Recognizing AdWare is quite simple - it is a pop-up flashy advertisement in the browser on all pages (for example, on Yandex a Vulcan casino may be advertised or a browser with advertising may open spontaneously).

It’s clear that this is not normal... so I want to tell you about a method for blocking Yandex Browser (now I use it myself and can recommend it to you). In the instructions we will consider universal options that are suitable even for Internet Explorer or EDGE. Let's look at both paid and free extensions - don't switch, it will be interesting!

How to remove advertising in the Yandex browser

Do you know why I like the Yandex browser? — it contains a lot of useful things for a Russian-speaking user. In addition, there is a built-in ability to filter ads using the third-party service AdGuard (I previously used AdBlock Plus, but after switching from Firefox to Ya.Browser there is no point in installing a third-party extension). This extension can be turned on simply - open the menu and go to “Add-ons”... and turn on the “Adguard” extension.

By default, advertising from Yandex and Google will not be blocked (and normal advertising there, sometimes even useful) - whether to disable it or not is up to you. On my own behalf, I would like to add that sometimes this is the only way for the author of a resource to earn money... after all, you need to pay for hosting, spend time writing posts like this one. Well, monetization is a great motivation to develop and fill your resource.

Well, that was a small lyrical digression - you can go to the extension settings and disable the “Allow search advertising and sites’ own promotions” item. This way you will completely disable all advertising on websites known to the extension.

ADGUARD is an excellent ad blocker for any browser

Since we are talking about ad blocking, it would be a crime not to talk about the wonderful AdGuard application. What if I told you that you can block ads not only in the browser, but also in various applications where they are often found? Skype, Viber, uTorrent - all these programs are popular and constantly annoying with ads, but AdGuard will automatically remove them all. You can download it from the official website...

AdGuard deserves a separate note, which I plan to write in the future, but for now a short overview of the capabilities

Installation is the same as everywhere else, nothing new was invented... however, I would advise not to install recommended products (well, if we want, we’ll install it ourselves, I don’t like this intrusiveness)

What can I tell you about the best application for blocking ads on your computer? Many people are looking for ways to disable advertising on Skype or torrent, delve into the code, edit something there - this is all real and tested in practice... but you can just install AdGuard and it will automatically block ads in all popular applications - isn’t it beautiful?!

The Parental Control feature seemed useful. I don’t know what filters this works on - but the joke is not in blocking porn sites and other bad resources... but in the inability to even find them in the search.

But of course, it is not without its drawbacks - the application is paid, but its price does not exceed the cost of pizza... support the developers, do not bother with torrents! And don’t forget - the AdGuard application is used to block ads; it will not help against viruses. You can use a good antivirus for free against all evil spirits.

How to remove ads in Google Chrome browser and other browsers

Now let's move on to the easiest way to get rid of ads in the browser - I used this extension until I switched to Yandex Browser with the AdGuard extension. Suitable for any browser (or almost, all known to me are supported) - just go to the official website of the extension...

I’ll tell you using Google Chrome as an example (but everything is similar for any other - be it Firefox or Opera) - find the largest button “Install for YOUR_BROWSER”. Agree with the installation of the extension and restart your web browser - the lion's share of advertising on sites will disappear.

How to remove ads in the browser? — We choose the best

If you are constantly seeing ads pop up in your browser, and all the methods described above have not corrected the situation, then you most likely have a malicious program on your computer, a browser extension, or the system settings have been changed. The whole problem with this infection is that antiviruses don’t see them, in fact it doesn’t harm the computer... but it infuriates the user. Let's start with disassembling pop-up advertising in the browser.

How to remove pop-up ads automatically

With the spread of this infection, it is not surprising that entire companies gradually began to appear producing applications to combat this advertising ransomware. Thanks to them, most advertising inserts are treated automatically and require virtually no user intervention - I highly recommend you use them.

AdwCleaner - an easy way to remove ads from your computer

In order not to bother you too much and not to bother you with places in the Windows system that are unclear to the average user, I suggest initially trying to remove pop-up ads in the browser automatically. There are many software products for removing AdWare, but my experience tells me to stick with AdwCleaner - in my opinion, the best solution to remove all known extensions from any browser.

Download only from !OFFICIAL site and nowhere else! After launching the application, click “Scan” and wait for the end of the search for harmful programs... check that the results do not contain anything unnecessary and click clean - check after rebooting.

Please note that AdvCleaner also considers all programs from Mail.RU to be malicious. If you use any Mail Agent, do not forget to remove it from the purge list.

HitmanPro is a good way to remove pop-up ads in your browser

A small utility from Malwarebytes, Hitman Pro will find most malware on your computer and can remove them. The application is paid, but with a test period - it will be more useful than ever for us for a one-time cleaning. As usual, download from the official website of the program.

To avoid installing the program on your computer, use the “I’m going to scan the system only once” option. In this case, we will immediately start scanning the operating system for unwanted programs.

As you can see, malware was found in our system (in our example it is a system activator, but it will do for the example) - just click “Next” to clear the found threats.

Remember I wrote that the application is paid? - so, to clean the system, you can activate a free license... click the appropriate button and enter your email to issue you a temporary license.

After cleaning, you should restart your computer and check whether our problem with pop-up advertising inserts has been resolved or not.

Removed pop-up ads in the browser - the Internet does not work

An unpleasant situation happens - you removed pop-ups and ads in your browser and now the Internet does not work. The browser reports that it is unable to connect to the proxy server. The problem is quite common, but has an elementary solution.

Most likely, the left DNS server was used, and since we removed the malicious application - using DNS data turned out to be impossible and useless - you just need to reset the settings to standard

To solve the problem with the error “Cannot connect to the proxy server,” we need to go to the “Control Panel,” open the “Network and Internet” section and in the “Browser Options” category, select “Manage browser settings.”

Make sure that the “Use a proxy server for local connections” checkbox is unchecked and that the “Automatic detection of parameters” option is active.

If the steps taken did not give the desired result, write in the comments, we’ll try to figure out the problem together.

How to remove pop-up ads in your browser manually

If all the methods described above to get rid of viral advertising in the browser did not help, then extreme measures remain - let’s try to fix the situation manually.

Task Scheduler - if ads pop up in the browser

The trend of 2017 is not a new frameless iPhone, but a problem of users who periodically have ads popping up in their browser... and not a single program sees them. I first encountered this species at the end of 2016 (and to be honest, for a very long time I could not understand what the problem was). The situation is as follows: an advertising site periodically opened, even if the browser was closed.

As it turned out, the malware used a task scheduler and simply periodically launched a task - launch the browser at the required time interval and open the site it needed in it (! brilliant).

To improve the health of our system, let’s open the task scheduler and delete it from there...

Open the Start menu and type “Task Scheduler” - find it in the search list and open it. Alternatively, press WIN + R on your keyboard and type taskschd.msc

In one of the tasks, you will probably see the path to the browser with a postscript in the form of a site that constantly opens for you - you should delete it (right-click on the task - delete). There are situations when different sites open all the time - in this case, one site opens, and then redirects to one of many (you just don’t have time to notice it) - just delete dubious tasks with additions to the path to the browser file.

What to do if advertising appears in the browser? — Disable extensions

You can clear your browser of ads and pop-ups simply by disabling the bad extension. Not long ago I installed a browser add-on that allowed me to watch torrents online... everything was great until I noticed that advertising appeared where there had never been one. Unfortunately, I did not notice this right away and therefore the solitaire did not work out right away - it helped that the extension was not installed in another browser and there were no left-handed advertisements there.

I just disabled the browser add-on and the ads disappeared. Try going to the list of extensions:

• For Yandex Browser this is Settings > Add-ons (in the same place where you enabled AdGuard)
• For Google Chrome - Settings > More tools > Extensions

Disable all extensions one by one until the ads stop appearing. This way you will identify a malicious extension - you need to remove it and forget about it forever.

Unfortunately, this point is often ignored, but it is one of the most common. You can’t trust anyone... there are often cases in which the extension that everyone is familiar with starts telling us all sorts of nasty things. We trust him, why do we need to turn him off and check him?! We will look in the place where it is not there... but until the last minute we will not try to simply turn it off for a minute and check.

The Hosts file is the reason for advertising in the browser

Many Adware use the Windows system hosts file to display advertisements. Currently, it is practically not used by advertising malware - usually left-handed Google addresses are registered there or social networks are replaced.

You can correct the hosts file using notepad (which, by the way, must be opened as an administrator, otherwise you will not be able to save changes in it). It is necessary to delete all lines that are under the lines starting with a hash.

Why do ads pop up in the browser? — Editing shortcuts

If, after completing all the steps described above, advertising starts only when you launch the browser itself, then it’s time to pay attention to program shortcuts. In the shortcut properties, delete everything that is outside the quotation marks (usually the address of the annoying site)... and create new shortcuts for the browser.

This method is incredibly simple, but many people overlook it. In my practice, this option of pop-up advertising occurs very often, so do not underestimate it.

Conclusions about pop-up advertising in the browser and blocking it

Constantly popping up ads in your browser can be very annoying, so be careful when installing different applications and try to use official download sites to minimize the possibility of picking up something unusual, but extremely unpleasant.

I hope this small instruction was useful to you (and it is really small - I described only a small part of the problem areas, but they are the most common) and you were able to defeat advertising in the browser. If something doesn’t work out, write in the comments, we’ll figure it out together!

However, not all pop-ups are annoying ads. Some of them you need to use certain websites. For example, when paying for services/products online, such pop-up windows are needed to complete a certain purchase. Or pop-up message windows from various instant messengers or mail that you have configured in a similar way. Therefore, it is not worth getting rid of all pop-up windows indiscriminately.

However, if a pop-up window appears suddenly, without any reason, it can be not only annoying, but also dangerous. Because certaintypes of advertising can be harmful and , which will not only clog your browser with endless ads, but can also infect your entire device! So be careful where you click..

Fortunately, there are such useful things as ad blockers. These are special browser extensions that filter out intrusive ads, ideally leaving you with only functional and useful pop-ups. But not all ad blockers work equally well.

The best and worst ad blockers

4. Google Chrome

In fourth place on our list is ad blockerChrome. Really, popular, a simple and convenient web browser from Google has pretty good built-in protection against pop-up ads.

It blocks most useless ads and lets functional pop-ups through. Wherein ad blockerChrome quite flexible in configuration. You can prevent websites from tracking your cookies and still allow some sites to show you notifications when needed.

But because to show you targeted advertising, we are not sure that unwanted advertising will always be blocked. 5.

5. AdFender

First of all, we love that this ad blocker allows . Secondly, AdFender does a good job of blocking video ads (even on Youtube!) and other types of pop-up ads, and allows flexible settings of operating parameters.

As an additional benefit, you can also view statistics for your web browser, which cannot be done in others. ad blockers.

The downside is that you have to pay for all this. AdFender's free trial period is very short, and then you need to renew your license every year. It is because of this, and the fact that AdFender is only available for Windows, that it finds itself at the bottom of our list.

6. Microsoft Edge

Despite being one of the least popular web browsers, we're impressed with Microsoft Edge's ad blocker. Edge blocks all malicious ads and allows unwanted pop-ups to pass through.

However, unlike the built-in Firefox extension, you can't change the settings, so you won't be able to list allowed sources. Users also note that Edge often blocks functional pop-ups that websites need to function.

7. Adblock Plus

Adblock Plus (not to be confused with AdBlock) is a simple ad blocking extension that has a couple of additional useful features.

You can allow certain pop-ups to be shown to certain websites, create a whitelist of ad sources, and create your own filter.

We were not impressed with the performance of this ad blocker, because it does not filter all advertising, but nevertheless this extension can be called acceptable. If you are satisfied with the option when you simply see a minimum of advertising, then Adblock Plus is a suitable option.

8. uBlock

uBlock is a great choice for those looking for a simple ad blocker. At the same time, if you need advanced functionality with customization options, then it’s better to look for something else.

Since you won't be able to adjust the filter's accuracy, you won't be able to control what the app will block. On the other hand, you can create a list of allowed sources here. However, we were alarmed by the fact that some of the data was stored in the log log.

The advantage of this blocker is that it is free and requires very little memory.

9. Smart Popup Blocker

Despite the stated functions (for example, a list of allowed advertising sources, managing cookies, deleting cookies), this extension is not so easy to install in the browser. We also wonder why it blocks Windows Messenger pop-up notifications?!

You can find many ad blockers on the Internet, but in order to make the right choice, you better know which ones really work well. We hope that our review will help you work comfortably online without being distracted by useless and annoying advertising.