AdGuard fails when using Pale Moon

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zip2mike
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AdGuard fails when using Pale Moon

Unread post by zip2mike » 2025-03-02, 13:14

Since AdGuard released v7.20 a few days ago (followed by 7.20.1 yesterday), I've been seeing ads on both YouTube and Rumble when using Pale Moon. When I switch to Brave browser, ads on those sites are being blocked as usual. I have informed AdGuard about the problem, but have yet to hear back from them. Does anyone know what might be causing this issue and if there's anything that I can tweak to fix it :?: Thanks!

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Re: AdGuard fails when using Pale Moon

Unread post by BenFenner » 2025-03-02, 15:12

Off-topic:
If Expose Noisy Tabs does what I think it does, you can remove that extension if not already done so. The browser provides that functionality (which can also blissfully be turned off if desired).

Is the Scroll To Top extension not made redundant by the "Home" key on the keyboard? :problem:

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Re: AdGuard fails when using Pale Moon

Unread post by moonbat » 2025-03-02, 22:01

Do you never let your extensions update? Pure URL is at 3.4 for ages now.
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Re: AdGuard fails when using Pale Moon

Unread post by Gemmaugr » 2025-03-02, 22:57

To actually attempt to answer your question though.. Isn't AdGuard a stand-alone program for DNS/Hosts blocking?

Which would mean it's only blocking Third Party Ads, and not First Party Ads embedded in and from the site itself.

Brave browser has a built-in form of uBO, which takes care of First Party Ads, so that wouldn't be a good comparison.

How come you're not simply using uBlock Origin for PM?

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Re: AdGuard fails when using Pale Moon

Unread post by suzyne » 2025-03-03, 00:58

I tried out AdGuard a short while back, but stopped because of several warnings here about how it fiddles with Security Certificates to accomplish the most effective blocking.
Gemmaugr wrote:
2025-03-02, 22:57
To actually attempt to answer your question though.. Isn't AdGuard a stand-alone program for DNS/Hosts blocking?

Which would mean it's only blocking Third Party Ads, and not First Party Ads embedded in and from the site itself.
Yes, it's standalone but my understanding is that it also does clever filtering of the actual HTML that the browser sees so it can potentially be just as good, (if not better?) than a browser based ad blocker.
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