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The software also sends periodic alerts to warn the user about phishing and malicious websites when they try to visit them.

This web extension is quite popular because it can block a variety of ad formats, including video, pop-ups, floating ads, banners, texts, and interstitial ads. Here are the ones we are testing for both browsers.Īdguard– Adguard protects the user’s data by blocking third-party tracking spyware, adware, and systems. There are many more ad blockers available in Chrome than in Firefox which is the reverse of what we expected. To see what they do when when loading a web page, we’ve decided to put a number of ad blockers to the test. This test is about the performance of an ad blocker in terms of how quickly it loads a range of ad blocked pages, the maximum amount of memory it uses and how much stress it puts on the CPU. There’s several ad blocking extensions available for Chrome and Firefox, and some work better than others. You may have to select a menu option or click a button.But we cannot get away from the fact an ad blocker is probably the number one add-on for browsers like Chrome and Firefox, and will continue to be so for some time yet. Besides removing the adverts, ad blockers also save bandwidth by cutting down the amount of content a page loads, they can also help with your privacy by blocking scripts that track your browsing habits.