Andy C
Oct 6, 2022

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While these Ad Blockers are effective in blocking Ads, you cannot trust when ownership of the browser extension changes and when it starts serving malware or stealer data from your browser because these extensions require access to your whole DOM. Search on Bleepingcomputer, you can find couple of articles.

Moreover, these extensions poll back a lot to its home server not only to download which hosts to block and not serve ads but also to send telemetry.

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Andy C
Andy C

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