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Revision as of 22:33, 31 October 2025

In the age of data collection where controls and safeguards on your data is not a given, ad-blocking software protects you in many ways. The information contained within this article will help you reduce the amount of information that you unwittingly share as well as reduce network traffic by preventing advertisements from being displayed.

Some of the add-ons / extensions / plug-ins below are not necessarily ad-blocking software but do contribute to blocking advertisements or reduce or eliminate the amount of data you share online.

Internet Browsers

A for Android, i for iOS, L for Linux, W for Windows

Browser base: C for Chromium, F for Firefox

If a browser is not listed "officially" for an add-on in the table below but shares the "Based on" attribute with a browser that is, it may (but is not guaranteed to) work with that browser.


	Based on	"Do Not Track" feature	DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials	NoScript	Privacy Badger	uBlock Origin
Brave	C
Chrome	C			L, W
DuckDuckGo	C	A
Edge	C			L, W
Firefox	F	A, L, W	A, L, W	A, L, W	A, L, W	A, L, W
Firefox Developer Edition	F	L, W	L, W	L, W	L, W	L, W
Opera	C
Safari	-
Vivaldi	C
Waterfox	F	L, W	L, W	L, W	L, W	L, W

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 Browser base: C for Chromium, F for Firefox
+If a browser is not listed "officially" for an add-on in the table below but shares the "Based on" attribute with a browser that is, it may (but is not guaranteed to) work with that browser.
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 !DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
 ![https://noscript.net/ NoScript]
-!Privacy Badger
+![https://privacybadger.org/ Privacy Badger]
-!uBlock Origin
+![https://ublockorigin.com/ uBlock Origin]
 !
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