So you’ve decided to do something about all those annoying ads you’re barraged with online. What pushed you over the edge? Auto-play video ads? Blaring banners? Tired of your music interrupted by a sudden sponsorship? Was it the realization they intentionally make the ‘Close’ buttons [x] on ads super tiny so you accidentally click the […]
  • mydude@lemmy.world
    126·
    6 months ago

    I don’t really trust these adblockers… Has anyone tried using Greasemonkey or any of the equivalent script environments for adblocking? I know it’s posdible, but I could not find any good scripts available? Has anyone found any good scripts on github (or other places) for this?

    • ivn@jlai.luEnglish
      20·
      6 months ago

      Why would you trust Greasemonkey and some random script over uBlockOrigin?

      Also it might be possible to do it partly but performance would inevitably be worse and I’m not sure every functionality would be implementable.

    • leopold@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      Content blockers like uBlock use filter lists which list every single element that needs to be blocked across the entire web. I currently have nearly 700000 of these filters active. That is very far outside the scope of a simple script. Basically all ad blocking userscripts are site-specific and they still usually block significantly less than uBlock would on the same site. Also, userscripts are not safer than extensions.