One of the most popular types of extensions for any browser is an ad blocker. If you are a Yandex.Brower user, then you should definitely use the Adblock Plus add-on.

The Adblock Plus extension is a built-in tool in Yandex Browser that allows you to block various types of advertising: banners, pop-ups, advertising at startup and while watching videos, etc. When using this solution, only content will be visible on sites, and all unnecessary advertising will be completely hidden.

Using Adblock Plus

When the Adblock Plus extension is installed in the browser, it will immediately be active by default. You can check this by simply going on the Internet to any site where advertising was previously located - you will immediately see that it no longer exists. But there are a few things to consider when using Adblock Plus that may come in handy.

Blocking all advertising without exception

The Adblock Plus extension is distributed completely free of charge, which means that the developers of this solution need to look for other ways to make money from their product. That is why in the add-on settings, by default, the display of unobtrusive advertising is activated, which you will periodically see. If necessary, it can be disabled.

Compiling a list of allowed sites

Given the widespread use of ad blockers, website owners have begun to look for ways to force you to turn on ads. A simple example: if you watch a video on the Internet with an active ad blocker, the quality will be reduced to a minimum. However, if the ad blocker is disabled, you will be able to watch videos in maximum quality.

In this situation, it is rational not to disable the ad blocker entirely, but to add the site of interest to the list of exceptions, which will only allow advertising to be displayed on it, and therefore remove all restrictions when watching videos.

Deactivating Adblock Plus

If you suddenly need to stop Adblock Plus altogether, you can do this only through the extension management menu in Yandex Browser.

Immediately after this, the extension icon will disappear from the browser header, and you can return it in exactly the same way - through managing add-ons, only this time the toggle switch should be set to "On".

Adblock Plus is a really useful add-on that makes web surfing in Yandex Browser much more comfortable.

Installing Adblock in Yandex Browser will help you forget about intrusive advertising forever.

To achieve this result, you need to configure this extension correctly.

How to install it? And what configuration features does it have?

Adblock is a special add-on with which you can get rid of intrusive advertising on Youtube, VK, Facebook and other sites. It also does an excellent job of blocking pop-ups, banners and other similar notifications.

But sometimes advertising still “slips” through the filters. In this case, you can block it yourself. To do this, you need to hover your mouse over the advertisement, right-click and select “Block”. Then, using the slider, you will need to select the appropriate blocking rule. To determine its effectiveness, use the Preview function.

To disable this add-on on a site, click on the arrow next to the extension icon and select “Disable on this site” from the menu that appears. The effectiveness of the blocker depends on the number of installed filters. However, if there are too many of them, the browser will load pages more slowly.

In addition, such abuse may lead to incorrect display of some sites. If this happens, disable Adblock and reload the page.

If the site displays correctly, it indicates that you have a bad filter installed. In this case, call the context menu with the right mouse button and click “Report a problem on this page”, type - “Adblock blocks too much.”

To avoid such problems, you must initially install this add-on correctly. Let's find out how to do this.

Below is a list of the best free ad blockers. But none of them is perfect, so it is most effective to use several solutions at once.

Types of Advertising

When choosing the best blockers, we adhered to the following criteria:

• Completely free;
• Good user ratings;
• No need to register an account to use;
• Recently updated (within the last 12 months);
• Implementation as a plugin for at least one browser or operating system;
• Blocks “media ads” (pop-ups, banners, videos, static images, wallpapers, text ads);
• Blocks advertisements in videos (for example, on YouTube).

To test blockers, we used several sites with different types of advertisements. Among them: Forbes.com, Fark.com, YouTube and OrlandoSentinel.com.
On Orlando Sentinel, we found aggressive ad formats that most ad blockers cannot block. In fact, only a few of them effectively blocked all ads shown on the Orlando Sentinel.

We've tested each of these free tools based on the criteria provided and given them a rating. In addition, the ad blockers listed below, with the exception of Stend Fair Adblocker, are open source software.

The best ad blockers - browser plugins and applications

The best option for blocking ads is to install a specialized plugin or use a browser with a built-in blocker. They interact with sites much more accurately than standalone programs running in the background on your computer.

Stands Fair AdBlocker
It is only available for the Google Chrome browser. With this plugin you can block all types of advertising. But it is only available as an add-on for the Google Chrome browser.
Stands Fair AdBlocker is not designed to block ad blocks, although it can be used for that as well. The development company believes in honest advertising and rewards users who create white lists of ads shown on sites.

Luckily, Stands does a great job of blocking all other ads. Including the aggressive advertising formats shown on the Orlando Sentinel. Plus display ads, autoplay videos, and YouTube ads.

Rating: 7/7

Main advantages: Block ads on Facebook and Google search.

Works with: Google Chrome

AdBuard AdBlock
AdGuard AdBlock was able to block all types of ads. But the biggest disadvantage of this ad blocker is that all the features are only available in the premium version. However, the difference between blocker versions is explained only in the reference documentation.

Many users have rated AdBuard AdBlock positively. It has been downloaded over 4 million times and received high ratings.
When we tested it, it was one of the ad blockers that not only effectively blocked ads shown on the Orlando Sentinel website, but also blocked advertising frames with the word “advertisement.”

Rating: 7/7

Main advantages: Possibility to convert whitelist to blacklist.

Works with: Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Yandex Browser.

Opera Browser
One of the fastest and most productive browsers. He was one of the first to offer his users a built-in ad blocker.

Once you enable the ad blocker in your settings, it blocks almost every ad you come across. But the browser was unable to block interstitial ads on the Forbes website (blocks of quotes that appear before articles). Most other ad units were blocked.
In addition, the Opera ad blocker successfully blocked advertisements shown on the Orlando Sentinel.

Rating: 7/7

Main advantages: built into a popular browser, easy whitelisting.

Works: with Opera.

Adblock Plus
Is the most popular ad blocking software with over 10 million downloads in the Google Chrome browser alone. This is a free and open source project. Adblock Plus is the basis for many other free blockers.

By default, Adblock Plus is designed to only block ads that are considered intrusive or potentially harmful. Therefore, it requires additional configuration.
If you want to block most ads (including auto-playing videos), you'll need to disable the "Allow some non-intrusive ads" option in Settings. But even in this case, ABP does not block everything.

Adblock Plus was one of the tools that failed to do anything about the ads shown on the Orlando Sentinel. Unfortunately, even the “element blocking” function could not help. ABP is good and popular, but far from perfect.

Rating: 6.5 / 7

Main advantages: presence of anti-blocking filter.

Works with: Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Yandex Browser, iOS, Android.

uBlock AdBlocker Plus
Unlike other tools, uBlock AdBlocker Plus is easy to use. However, there are some things that the developer could improve. For example, the blocker's website is just a page with the name of the plugin and no additional information.

Block AdBlocker Plus effectively blocks most advertisements, but still lets some through. For example, it did not block the automatic playback of advertising on one of the sites.

When some advertisements were loading, I used the "element blocking" feature to block specific advertisements on the webpage. For example, on the Orlando Sentinel, element blocking worked fine. And its use did not lead to a page reload (as was the case with other ad blockers).

Rating: 6.5 / 7

Main advantages: easy to use, ability to lock elements.

Works with: Google Chrome.

uBlock Plus Adblocker
The biggest drawback of this plugin is that it has a clunky interface. There are several settings that are activated using switches. But most of the work involves digging into the parameters. However, uBlock Plus Adblocker effectively blocked all advertisements, including autoplay videos.

The main advantage of the plugin is the presence of a large library of third-party filters. The tool also includes advanced custom settings that allow you to create your own content filters.
During testing, uBlock Plus Adblocker blocked most advertisements. But I couldn't do anything about the banner ads shown on the Orlando Sentinel.

Rating: 6.5 / 7

Main advantages: filters elements and unsafe advertisements.

Works with: Google Chrome.

AdBlocker Genesis Plus
If you have used uBlock Origin or AdBlock Plus, this plugin is for you. AdBlocker Genesis Plus is a fork of other popular plugins. It uses the same basic source code, but implements many of its own features.

Its user interface is slightly different, but the ad blocking functionality is the same. The plugin's developer claims to have specifically removed tracking code from the uBlock/AdBlock Plus source code to ensure greater privacy.

This ad blocker has a high rating (4.34 out of 5) based on over 100,000 ratings. But I found that Genesis Plus doesn't block all ads. The plugin blocked simple display ads on one site (Fark.com), but was unable to block a display ad on the Orlando Sentinel.

Rating: 6/7

Main advantages: no tracking code, simple whitelist button, block items button.

Works with: Google Chrome.

Adblock Ultimate
Open source project. The tool allows you to deal with most advertisements. In testing, it was able to block YouTube ads and most display ads on websites. This ad blocker has high ratings: 4.84 out of 5 from Google Chrome users and over 600,000 installations.

The plugin was unable to handle the ads shown on the Orlando Sentinel. It did not block ads broadcast on this site at all. But for those who only need to cut out most of the ads, this is a good option. Unfortunately, the plugin has not been updated for over a year. Because of this, his rating was lowered.

Rating: 6/7

Main advantages: Quick “item blocking” feature that allows you to instantly block any advertisements.

Works with: Google Chrome.

NoScript

This tool is only suitable for Firefox and is more of a script blocker than an ad blocker. NoScript prevents all types of scripts from loading on web pages: JavaScript, Java, Flash and others. You can allow certain types of scripts to be loaded. But by default, the tool applies a fairly “hard” filter.

As a result of its work, most display ads are blocked. This includes aggressive advertising on the Orlando Sentinel, which other tools could not cope with. But NoScript does not block ads in videos at all.

Rating: 5.5/7

Main advantages: Complete blocking of scripts.

Works with: Firefox.

Why aren't Privacy Badger and Ghostery on this list?

You may have heard about the popular ad blockers Privacy Badger and Ghostery. The fact is that these plugins are not designed to block ads, but to refuse ads and other elements of sites that violate user privacy. As a result, they both block certain types of advertisements. But first and foremost, the tools are aimed at protecting privacy.

Advertising is the main source of funding for sites on the World Wide Web. Without her, there would be no VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, or even Yandex. But what to do if advertising offers on some sites take up more than half of the space and interfere with viewing the content? Or are advertisements of very explicit content shown?

The principle of operation of ad blockers is quite simple - when a page is loaded, javascript elements responsible for loading advertising banners or pop-up windows are cut out of its code. Thus, using adblock you get rid of advertising and save Internet traffic, which is especially important for mobile devices.

Downloading and installing Adblock Plus for Yandex Browser

1. You can download Adblock on the official website of the developer or in the Opera online store using the link - addons.opera.com/ru/extensions/details/opera-adblock/?display=ru.

2. After downloading, a pop-up window will appear prompting you to install.

3. If the extension is successfully installed, the ABP icon will appear in the upper right corner and a new page will open.

Setting up and using Adblock in Yandex Browser

After installing Adblock, you don’t have to make additional settings for several reasons:

1. The extension is already configured with basic parameters that allow you to block more than 98% of advertisements.
2. Most of the available settings can only be done by experienced users.

If you want individuality or just want to support your favorite project without turning off viewing advertising on its pages, let’s figure it out.

Disable all advertising

By default, adblock plus allows displaying only “Unobtrusive advertising” from popular media networks - Google Adwords, Yandex.Direct, etc. To disable it, open the settings page by right-clicking on the extension icon in the browser.

All that remains is to uncheck the “Allow some unobtrusive advertising” option.

Now there will be no advertising in Yandex Browser.

Personal lists

By blocking advertising completely, you deprive yourself of the opportunity to see a “tempting” offer that might interest you and deprive sites of earning money. Imagine that one day you go to your favorite forum or personal blog, but it ceases to exist due to lack of money to pay for a domain, hosting, etc.

You can avoid this situation and support your favorite project by adding it to the white list of sites.

Open adblock settings and go to the “List of allowed domains” section.

One by one, enter the addresses of sites on which advertising should not be cut.

Notifications about the need to disable Adblock

The situation with the widespread use of ad blockers is so acute that many webmasters display notifications on the pages of their websites about the need to disable Adblock, or even block some content.

The developers of the extension took this into account and introduced the “Adblock Warning Removal List” function that hides such notifications.

Immediately after installation, it is turned off; you can activate it by checking the box next to the corresponding item.

How to disable Adblock Plus in Yandex browser

If there is an urgent need to disable Adblock Plus, you can do this in three ways:

1. By disabling it on a specific site (the address will be whitelisted).

2. By deactivating the plugin (Adblock will remain in the browser and save the settings, but will not block ads).

You can reactivate the plugin by dragging the slider to the “On” position.

3. Completely remove the extension (All settings will be lost).

Free use, minimal settings and constant updates make Adblock Plus one of the best ad blockers for Yandex Browser.

Adblock Plus 2.7.3

Download Adblock Plus

Adblock Plus- free ad blocker (Flash advertising, video advertising, Java applets, banners, etc.) in all popular browsers. The operation of this program is based on self-learning filters, i.e. the system understands which site elements to block and by the way, Adblock Plus does not display an empty square instead of blocked advertising. You can download Adblock Plus in Russian without SMS and registration using the link at the bottom of the page.

Features of the Adblock Plus program: .

• Page layout remains unchanged (i.e. no empty squares displayed)
• Self-learning filters
• Ability to add filters from various resources yourself
• Automatic update of filter databases
• Blocked advertising content (its quantity) is displayed in a special counter
• Integration with Yandex, Opera, Chrome, Firefox, Mozilla browsers

Adblock Plus is a free and popular application for blocking ads in browsers such as: Google Chrome, Yandex Browser, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer. The new version of Adblock Plus for Browsers will help you quickly and most importantly block all intrusive Flash advertising, video advertising, banners, etc. on websites for free. Adblock Plus works based on creating filters, thanks to which the system understands which website elements need to be blocked and which not. Adding your own filter is a fairly simple operation: right-click on a banner that is not blocked and add it. We would also like to note that the latest version of Adblock Plus does not leave an empty square instead of blocked advertising.

Adblock Plus free download

Download Adblock Plus for free, the download link leads to the official Adblock website. Our website monitors all program updates to ensure that you have the latest version of Adblock Plus.