uBlock Origin works well for me. It's got a nice selection of toggles for various lists if you want to expand it's coverage.

uBlock Origin - a firewall for ads.
Highly recommended!

Personally, I use Adblock Latitude, but that's a fork of Adblock Plus to keep it working for Pale Moon.

I use AdBlockPlus and uBlock Origin, they're both good. uBlock Origin is lower on resources though.

Adblocker Ultimate or

[url=https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-br/firefox/addon/bluhell-firewall/ ]Bluhell Firewall[/url] (despite the name it is just a adblocker) or

Adguard Adblocker

AU for a adblocker like all of them.
BF for a no bs, no configs needed, no white listing, just block ads and be done with it.
AdG for a "I want moar" tool (there's even a paid version on their site as a Windows program, installer and all).

Another vote for uBlock Origin. It uses a lot less resources than ABP.

I had to move to uBlock when i started using PaleMoon to watch Youtube videos. So far it's different, but not bad.

How so? Do you whitelist sites and such? I'm not a very advanced adblocker-user, so I haven't noticed anything different. The performance boost is very noticeable though!

I didn't know Pale Moon had uBlock. If only it had Reddit Enhancement Suite as well, it would probably be my go-to browser.

And one more +1 for uBlock Origin.
But if you notice Increasing inability to block ads, that pretty much depends on filter-lists you subscribe.
Easylist for base and additional lists on top are normal way but ABP does tend to start slowing down browser when you use lists with lots of CSS-filters.

PaleMoon is Firefox... Or rather a split from Firefox at a certain point and became it's own thing, it's just AdBlockerPlus isn't compatible (so some breaking API changes). Honestly Mozilla has been... questionable as of the last 10 versions, the last version i officially use is v25, while i do prefer earlier versions (8 i think was my favorite).

As for whitelisting, sure i whitelist. Usually when the site asks nicely (or the ads aren't annoying) rather than giving me a stop sign about the matter. In those cases i tend to avoid those sites and never use them again. F*** those sites.


I started using Adblocker and FlashBlock back in 2007 as i recall, when flash ads brought my browser to a crawl when i was preloading 3-4 pages so i could try and download episodes for anime (Bleach?). Blocking instantly made such a huge difference.

What about using a firewall to block ads? I was looking into that yesterday myself.

Has anyone tried configuring their firewall to block outgoing connections? I thought that would be a leaner approach to reduce third-party cookies and cache of their advertisements and such. Or rather than blocking perhaps limit the allowed connections to a small whitelist. I don't visit much on the Internet anymore, it's gotten to be like television with too little originality and newspapers with too much fluff. I'd probably have only a dozen or so direct websites, along with whatever indirect websites such as image servers, e.g. Yahoo! mail icons.

I'm using Mac OS X 10.11.6 which has "pfctl" as the firewall command accessible in a terminal. I tried to create an anchor with a table to block outgoing connections to a hostname (facebook.com), just a couple lines in a file, but without any success. What I added showed up in the output of the configuration for the anchor I added to pfctl ("pfctl -a mylistofnames -sa"), but the website was still accessible with Safari. :-(

I'd rather not depend on too high-level of an approach because in the past when those eventually stopped working as well or at all then there's too much spaghetti code to rework, and worse it's somebody else's spaghetti code (SESC).

Anybody know how to do a simple configuration to block a single address or hostname, or deny all and allow only one or a small list? With "pfctl" in particular? I'd like to use what comes with the computer without having to install extra fluff, and avoid micromanaging huge lists. Is that perhaps not feasible? Yesterday I couldn't find any examples of something so simple. So maybe ultimately it doesn't work out well?

Interesting suggestion and good question op. Its one of those continuous battles against advertising and yes some sites even check for blockers and don't work. Will have to look at the unlock, but also need a new browser, firefox has gone in a direction not to my tastes.

I've used a firewall to block requests from the Flash standalone player that wants to shove a 30 second ad at you if you switch between 3 different flashes. Makes it difficult to sort stuff when you aren't given the freedom to glance at your stuff. This generally is easier if you are IP sniffing to see the request numbers, or have a router with a history and you can identify which IP addresses are obviously just for ads.