toolz
Easy-to-use interface and extensive collection of testing tools for optimizing performance and user experience. (by d3ward)
block-ads
Web page to test ad blocking and encourage use of blockers. (by fivefilters)
| toolz | block-ads | |
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| 10 | 12 | |
| 881 | 176 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.8 | 4.2 | |
| 6 days ago | 8 months ago | |
| EJS | HTML | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
toolz
Posts with mentions or reviews of toolz.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-17.
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Cover Your Tracks
If you want to understand better the situation, you can see this github issue by Ryanbr, who works for Brave and maintains Easylist and Fanboy lists: https://github.com/d3ward/toolz/issues/31
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Only 'Partial Protection' on Cover Your Tracks. Should I be concerned?
d3ward adblock test is the same crappy crap, and you can see how ryanbr who works at Brave and Easylist speaks about it in their github issues about unused domains and how the test will never get 100% because non tracking urls being added to the test, and even if the domains ryanbr mentioned in that issue got removed already, Brave and uBlock still don't get 100% because of similar issues with tests checking weird stuff that don't matter in real world.
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How is this possible? Firefox Adblock issues
The problem with this specific test is also how many of the URLs it is Blocking are not real ones, so sometimes Easylist/uBlock will not add them to their list because they are not used in the real world for tracking purposes, you can read even Ryanbr talked about it here https://github.com/d3ward/toolz/issues/31So if those urls were tracking or delivering ads, it would already be blocked by Easylist.
- Testing FF & GChrome: Please, I need an explanation
- Toolz offers a simple and beautiful design test that allows you to quickly and easily test the performance of your current ad/content blocker solution.
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Brave Browser letting ads through social media urls
https://github.com/d3ward/toolz/issues/31 and https://community.brave.com/t/brave-no-more-secure-doesnt-block-amazon-ads/299815/3
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How to make the ad block in vivaldi better?
Just a quick note in reference to before mentioned test page https://github.com/d3ward/toolz/issues/31
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No longer blocking some Facebook and Amazon
I've created a ticket https://github.com/d3ward/toolz/issues/31 but given the lack of fixes. Just avoid it.
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About Brave Adblock
d3ward's test is invalid and shows unused domains as checks. Just checks random urls, we use to have "100% coverage" but then the owner decided to add random domains not actually used. We weren't going to block domains that aren't actually used on any websites or anywhere.
block-ads
Posts with mentions or reviews of block-ads.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-06.
- Suggestions on hardening Firefox?
- Modifying Pale Moon to Change Default (Post-Installation) Settings
- Which one protects from tracking better?
- How is this possible? Firefox Adblock issues
- how do you get rid of the ads in Chrome on an Android?
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Cellphone bypassing WiFi DNS settings
https://blockads.fivefilters.org/ can tell if your adblock is running.
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Nvidia Shield not respecting DNS settings
Termux wont respect the DNS settings of the host. You need to set it for termux. If you want to test if your NVS is using pihole, use a browser and browse some website, check your pihole log to see if pihole recieves it. Or you could visit https://blockads.fivefilters.org/ for a quick confirm.
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"Malware-FREE NanoDefender Back!!! Atleast for..."
This site Block Ads! Adblock test (fivefilters.org) always showed adblocking enabled although i had ublock with 5-10 custom anti block-adblock filters and 10-15 extra adblock and block-blockadblock scripts running in tampermonkey but the above site always showed adblocking enabled . Its source code is open source so any site could copy its way of detection.
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AdGuard not working? (Test page and Safari settings saying so)
"No adblocking detected - we suggest you install an adblocker" on https://blockads.fivefilters.org
- So I got a Brave ad while on Brave, when it's literally meant to block ads. So either this browser is a scam or their ad-blocker shut down.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing toolz and block-ads you can also consider the following projects:
postcss-px-to-viewport - A plugin for PostCSS that generates viewport units (vw, vh, vmin, vmax) from pixel units. The best choice to create a scalable interface on different displays by one design size.
brave-browser - Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.
NSO_Pegasus_Blocklist - Formatted HOSTS blocklist for 1.5K domains researched by Amnesty International; combats malicious mobile phone spyware
termux-app - Termux - a terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible by variety of packages.
AmIUnique - Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet
adblock-rust - Brave's Rust-based adblock engine
user.js - Firefox privacy, security and anti-tracking: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening
blokada - The official repo for Blokada apps.
Betterfox - Firefox user.js for speed, privacy, and security. Your favorite browser, but better.
WebTools-NG - WebTools Next Generation for Plex