How do I block ads? The multiply on all pages - not on DU, though

[question everything]

Spouse's MacBook has an ad blocker on the Applications menu but I cannot find anything on my iMac.

Where do I get them? They are on both Firefox and on Safari.

[AllaN01Bear]

1. adblock and adblock plus here , not totaly efective but helps . have no adblocker on another

browser and they multiply. good luck.

[mr_lebowski]

2. They are browser add-ons aka extensions ...

https://help.getadblock.com/support/solutions/articles/6000055763-how-do-i-install-adblock-how-do-i-uninstall-adblock-

[question everything]

9. Security problem?

I ended up here

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-for-firefox/

and it says

This is not monitored for security through Mozilla's Recommended Extensions program. Make sure you trust it before installing.

Will have to go through extension, I suppose, or an App..

[DonaldsRump]

3. I have uBlock on my PCs and Chromebook

Works great! I don't know about Macs, though.

For the price one pays for a Mac, this should come pre-installed!

(Am a former Mac person myself, but couldn't afford the habit anymore.)

[overleft]

4. I use Ghostery. Works pretty good.

[question everything]

8. Where do I find it? Thanks

[Lulu KC]

5. I use the Brave browser

It is fantastic. Better than my old combo of adblock, wipr, and ghostery.

[yonder]

6. ublock and ghostery here.

Now something for my phone.

[SeattleVet]

7. Adblock Plus and a Pi-Hole.

The Pi-Hole is a Raspberry Pi that acts as your primary DNS lookup for everything on your network, and it just drops known ad sites from downloading.

I used a super-cheap Pi Zero and the setup was very fast and easy. Here's all the background and info for it:

https://pi-hole.net

From looking at my logs, it appears that almost 45% of our network queries were blocked from downloading over the past 24 hours. This makes web pages load MUCH faster (they aren't downloading all of the ads with the page content).

Very customizable, too, to allow or reject specific ads/sites.

[Tetrachloride]

10. use the browser called Epic from epic browser dot com

Why mess around with extensions when Epic has these pre-installed.

[CloudWatcher]

11. +1 for Pi-Hole

I really like our Pi-Hole, we've been using one here for months. We had an idle Raspberry Pi, so our out-of-pocket cost was zero. If you like tinkering and know what DHCP and DNS mean, it can be fun to setup.

One minor problem though ... we do run into the occasional site that refuses to work unless we disable ad-blocking. And unlike other ad-blockers, Pi-hole doesn't let you tell it "allow all the ads from this one web site that I'm using."

Instead Pi-hole has a "white-list" feature, which allows you to adjust which ad sites are unblocked. So to enable ads for a particular web site, you have to first review the pi-hole logs and see which ad sites were just queried, then add each of those to the Pi-Hole white-list (which of course enables those ad sites on all your browsing). And of course there's nothing to prevent your new favorite web site from using different ad-servers next week. So ... it's a bit involved when dealing with sites that are picky about ad-blockers.

Instead I always think "f*** this site, I should get back to work instead of browsing the net anyway."

One huge plus is that if you configure the DHCP service in your router to send the Raspberry Pi's IP address as the preferred DNS server, all your connected systems will start using Pi-Hole without having to change them at all

Just remember to either donate to DU or white-list their ads!

[SeattleVet]

12. When I run into one of those (rare) sites that won't load...

I usually just go to the Pi-Hole admin panel and disable Pi-Hole for short time, then load the site. I really like the 'timed' disable - it lets you see if it's really Pi-Hole that's stopping something, and goes back to its usual state after the predetermined time without any further action on my part. The preset times are 10 and 30 seconds, and 5 minutes, and then a user-determined time. Really helpful feature for the rare times we need to figure out why something won't load.

[CloudWatcher]

13. Timed disable!

Thanks, I'd forgotten (if I'd ever noticed) that feature! I'll have to give it a try next time

[SmartVoter22]

14. UBlock Origin

I use UBlock Origin, as an extension in Chrome & FIrefox with Safari in development.

It uses 'lists' that you enable which create a blocklist of ads, trackers, anti-adblock, malware, IP grabbers and tracking cookies. All the goodies bad folks use to hack, whack, spam, phish, and cajole you into clicking on an ad are no longer a problem. It works very well, but requires your participation.

You should learn how to use it, as it allows you to use lists that are geographic specific and you must update the lists manually.
Only takes about 5 mins to update.
Lists are free and updated frequently. Easy to add more lists.

Check out some YouTube vids on "UBlock Origin" to understand what it does and how to download, install and use it.
My current lists guard against nearly 300,000 websites known to post malware ads and other nefariousness.

[question everything]

15. Thanks. After the suggestions here and in the Apple community support I got them

And recently had to download it for my iPad, too.