uBlock
uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. (by gorhill)
Spotify-Ad-Blocker
EZBlocker - A Spotify Ad Blocker for Windows (by Xeroday)
| uBlock | Spotify-Ad-Blocker | |
|---|---|---|
| 3,020 | 13 | |
| 51,693 | 1,851 | |
| 4.6% | 0.0% | |
| 9.8 | 0.0 | |
| 2 days ago | almost 3 years ago | |
| JavaScript | C# | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
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.
uBlock
Posts with mentions or reviews of uBlock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-10.
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uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
uBlock Origin always worked best in Firefox anyhow:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
- uBlock's Origin "medium" blocking mode
- About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported"
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Starlink in the Falklands, a National Emergency Situation?
With these internet connections, I really hope the local techies are helping set people up uBlock Origin, running something like ClearURLs to short-circuit unnecessary redirects (I assume GEO latency), and running LocalCDN to avoid re-downloading the same libraries and assets over and over. Probably also good to install something that defaults Youtube to 360p, and Pihole for mobile/smart devices.
I would run uBO in Medium Mode[1], but I expect that's probably too much for most non-technical users.
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
- I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
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Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox
*uMatrix is unmaintained, and uBlock Origin can do fine-grained control – it just requires the “advanced user” setting for some reason, even if you expand the panels all the way. https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/quick-guide:-popup-us... (see “I am an advanced user!” expanding section at the bottom)
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Undersea Cables Connect the Global Internet
No issues here on Firefox 128.4.0esr, even with uBlock Origin medium mode[1] blocking 31% of the page.
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...
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Is Chrome the New IE?
uBlock Origin works best on Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
- Ask HN: Which browser extensions could you not do without?
- uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
Spotify-Ad-Blocker
Posts with mentions or reviews of Spotify-Ad-Blocker.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-15.
- Kan man klage til Spotify?
- Mais alguém está farto do anúncio do spotify do João Só que nos convida a ouvir as suas novas canções em dueto com talentosissimas cantoras e compositoras que ele tanto admira?
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Program to mute system audio during Spotify ads
FYI you can do this on Windows with https://www.ericzhang.me/projects/spotify-ad-blocker-ezblocker
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pir(ule)acy
EZBlocker - lightweight executable that blocks and mutes Spotify ads on Windows.
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SponsorBlock for Spotify
For PC there is EZblocker
- What python automation have you created that you use for PERSONAL only.
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Any way to skip/block Spotify ads on desktop app (mac os) ?
I'm not sure if it's being actively maintained and it had some issues back when I used it but it worked very well 90-95% of the time; It's called EZBlocker for Spotify and it's created by Eric Zhang (XeroDay). Hope that helps!
- Bloccare Ads su Spotify Free - Ezblocker - lo avete provato? Funziona?
- What’s are you getting for free/cheap by exploiting a loophole?
- Ad block for Spotify desktop working in 2021?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing uBlock and Spotify-Ad-Blocker you can also consider the following projects:
AdNauseam - AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance
BlockTheSpot - Video, audio & banner adblock/skip for Spotify
duckduckgo-privacy-extension - DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials browser extension for Firefox, Chrome.
SpotX - SpotX patcher used for patching the desktop version of Spotify
bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. [UnavailableForLegalReasons - Repository access blocked]
SponsorBlock - Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)