Which Ad Blocking Software is Better?

I am fed up of using freeware and open source adblockers and am now willing to choose among the following adblockers:

1. Adblock
2. AdGuard
3. Adblock Plus

My question is: which one among them works better and consumes low memory resources? Thanks!

 

which brouser are you using.
i use firefox with adblock plus and havnt had 1 advert popup since i started using it.

 

I think AdBlock Plus is the main 'original' one, for chrome 'Adblock' was written by someone else because Adblock Plus wasn't on Chrome. I remember 'Adblock' for chrome did an April fools prank last year (put kittens instead of adverts) which was a bit childish which made me switch to the original Adblock Plus for chrome.

The net effect of reducing CPU load by not loading flash adverts etc. will outweigh how much memory it uses.

 

I use IE, Chrome, and Firefox.

But I have seen many people claiming that adguard consumes lowest ever memory resources and uses latest technology than other ad blockers. Since it's not that publicized as compared to Adblock and Adblock Pluss, that's why people do not rely much on it. Is that true?

 

I personally use ABP, and don't see much of a problem with it.

Even if it were true that AdGuard uses less resources, these pieces of software use so little that's it's really trivial.

 

I use neither if you want real blocking use this site and edit to your hosts file this will block way more ads and pop then any of those 3 programs will and this file is free to use. This requires no payments or installing third party software to use and make it work.

Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck (as much)

 

I use Adblock plus with Chrome and it works very well, without causing any problems

 

Hosts file edit is way more effective then anything Adblock can do. I use the Hosts edit and no longer have popup or web ads showing on my websites I visit that is something Adblock can never hope to achieve.

 

At me, on Opera and Firefox I find Adblock too "heavy", so I use Ghostery,not so good as adblock but moore light on my laptop...

 

You're right.

That's cool, but don't you think that doing this may put your whole system on stake as most of such sites monitor your activities and can steal your data?

I think Adguard.com uses the latest technology where all adblockers fail.

You can try adguard (if you never did it before) to see the difference. I found miles difference in it and other ad blocking software.

 

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Not when the reroute is 127.0.0.1 meaning it goes no where but to nothing land. And hadn't had problem with sites requiring cookies that works without problems-that is sites that are legit and proper. Sometimes those ad blockers block cookies from working correctly.

But nothing works better then Hosts file edit that is a sure fire way to stop adware and popups.

 

Personally I use the following with appropriate whitelisting (i.e. unblocking flash games, allowing ads on a site I like, etc).

AdBlockPlus
Ghostery
NoScript
Flashblock

and a hosts file.

I want to say I get 0 ads, but in reality I get very, very, very, very few ads. Sometimes 1 slips through. It's quite rare though.

 

Those ads blockers have blocked cookies as well from working properly so I would trust them like salt in a wound. Ghostery in the past has blocked my cookies from working correctly. The hosts file from my experience wins hands down for time and money spent stopping ads/popup from every showing up.