Question: How well does Adblock work?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

There's a sports related message board that I enjoy a lot, except it inevitably slows downs and/or is constantly freezing. I believe it's because of the ad platform the website uses.

Do any of you know how well Adblock works as it pertains to these problems? Are there any downsides to Adblock? Does it affect the ability to do some things that I like, such as play videos?

[NorthCarolina]

1. I've used it for a long time now...works great.

Try it, if it doesn't work in the manner you desire then delete it.

[hermetic]

2. I love it

Have used it for many years on both IE and Firefox. As previously stated, if you don't like it, delete it. Easy peasy.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. If AdBlock doesn't work for you, try uBlock.

You might want to check out these posts re. AdBlock:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027200084

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141222582

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Ad Block was apparently letting "some" ads in, of late

so I changed to Ad Guard, which lets me determine the area of the page I want blocked and gives me a preview of what the blocked page looks like.
More control over content, I like that.
I also use Ghostery, so rarely have a problem.

[douglas9]

5. Ad Muncher

https://www.admuncher.com/

[catbyte]

6. I love it. On YouTube, it's an essential.

[NobodyHere]

7. I have to disable for certain sites such as Hulu

but otherwise i love it

[sarge43]

8. I've used for over a year now and I love it.

I haven't encountered any downside. Give it a try.