Test Ad Block - Toolz
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Looking for an easy way to check the efficiency of your ad blocker?Toolz offers a simple and beautiful design test that allows you to quickly and easily test the performance ofcurrent ad/content blocker solution. Intuitive interface makes it easy to navigate and use,and the beautiful design ensures that the experience is visually appealing. With just a click, you can see how well the ad blocker is working and make any necessary adjustments.

I get 82% (27 not blocked. I use Firefox ESR with uBlock and Privacy Badger.

  • Ilandar
    37·
    1 year ago

    These tools aren’t a reliable indicator of your protection. See here.

    • N4CHEM@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      You are right, I ran the test on Mull + uBlock Origin on a phone running an ad/tracker blocker at OS level, and this tool reported connections that I couldn’t find in my logs.

      It however helped me identify appmetrica.yandex.ru which was not blocked.

  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    1 year ago

    This test is wrong for sure. It doesn’t detect YouTube ads as being blocked despite them never appearing in this browser thanks to ublock origin.

    I also highly doubt that any domain from DoubleClick.com would be allowed through ubo.

    • Mnky313@lemmy.ca
      6·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I have a quite aggressive pihole and a lot of the domains it says aren’t blocked are 100% blacklisted in pihole (and testing them gives an error message so they are blocked…)

      Mull (Firefox) + uBlock + PiHole.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@czech-lemmy.eu
      1·
      1 year ago

      YouTube ads are just other YouTube videos that you can watch willingly if you know their ID. The mechanism of serving them might therefore not involve the client connecting to any domains other than www.youtube.com, and it probably doesn’t or it would be very easy to block them otherwise.

  • clive@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    1 year ago

    I opened this in Connect’s in app browser and got a whopping 4%. Good reminder to change app settings to use your browser instead of whatever their internal browser is

  • 𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖙@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I get 90% on both mobile and PC.

    Firefox on PC with UBlock Origin. Fennec on Android with UBlock Origin.

    Both are behind an AdGuard DNS but I think UBlock Origin does most of the heavy lifting here.

    If I turn off the “cosmetic filter” it goes up to 92% 🤷

    Edit:

    Adding the following to “My filters” in UBlock Origin brought it up to 97%

    @@*$redirect-rule

    100% with cosmetic filter disabled

  • zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml
    7·
    1 year ago

    this test has been known to have problems on Firefox. 90% Firefox+ublock+nextdns, 99% after using the fix they recommend @@*$redirect-rule in your rules.

  • veloxy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Seems to be misreporting (Adguard home + ublock origin + FF). With ublock off I get a higher percentage than with it on (93% vs 91%). It’s reporting things as not blocked while they are clearly blocked (all requests show blocked in inspector)

    • Ilandar
      4·
      1 year ago

      See here for more information. You are correct that the tool is fairly useless.

  • krimsonbun@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 year ago

    96% on /e/OS with the Mull browser with uBlock and Privacy Badger

    92% on /e/ on the tor browser with the same extensions?? that’s weird

    • 1984@lemmy.today
      21·
      1 year ago

      Yup got the same except adguard instead of pihole. Will add the remaining to a block list also.

  • kbity@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    Before adding “@@*$redirect-rule” to uBlock Origin filters:

    After adding “@@*$redirect-rule” to uBlock Origin filters:

    • With uMatrix enabled: 100%, 150/150 blocked.
    • With uMatrix disabled: 85%, 127/150 blocked.

    Using Firefox with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and some others.