Ad Blocker Test – Check If Your Ad Blocker Works • Hacker News Board

Re: Ad Blocker Test – Check If Your Ad Blocker Works

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Post by waltbosz » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 2:55 PM UTC

paol wrote: post #7

This is clearly broken, it shows "3 blocked" even as uBO is reporting 89 requests to 34 different domains blocked. EDIT it's below the fold: "Some browser/blocker combinations may affect results. If uBlock Origin breaks the test, allow adblock.turtlecute.org."

To allow their site, they suggest you add `@@*$redirect-rule` to `My filters` in the uBlock origins settings.

Went from 5% to 84% after I made the change.

Re: Ad Blocker Test – Check If Your Ad Blocker Works

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Post by josefresco » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 2:57 PM UTC

Stock Brave: 63% w/uBOL: 65%

Re: Ad Blocker Test – Check If Your Ad Blocker Works

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Post by lejeanvaljean » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC

or just remove adblock and accept that people are paid by the ads on the websites you're reading

Re: Ad Blocker Test – Check If Your Ad Blocker Works

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Post by RijilV » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 3:01 PM UTC

The methodology for validation seems a bit off, in my setup I return a local IP for all of the domains in that list and serve empty content for it. Thus it detects the ads getting through, but in reality they did not.

Re: Ad Blocker Test – Check If Your Ad Blocker Works

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Post by mzajc » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 3:04 PM UTC

From Raymond Hill, the author of uBlock Origin:

  Please do not use those online tools which claim to measure how good is your content blocker, they are often flawed.[0]

I don't know how much that applies to this particular tool, but I did notice that it's flagging requests as 'not blocked' even though they're blocked with uMatrix.

[0]: https://xcancel.com/gorhill/status/1583581072197312512

Re: Ad Blocker Test – Check If Your Ad Blocker Works

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Post by yalghoz » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 8:32 PM UTC

lejeanvaljean wrote: post #13

or just remove adblock and accept that people are paid by the ads on the websites you're reading

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