When comparing Dark Reader vs AdBlock Plus, the Slant community recommends Dark Reader for most people. In the question“What are the best Firefox add-ons?” Dark Reader is ranked 8th while AdBlock Plus is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose Dark Reader is:
There are so many ways to customize to your liking, such as, brightness/contrast, sepia/grayscale, font choices, and my favorite "Experimental theme engine" setting that analyzes each site to give the best dark mode option.
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Pros
Pro Customization options
There are so many ways to customize to your liking, such as, brightness/contrast, sepia/grayscale, font choices, and my favorite "Experimental theme engine" setting that analyzes each site to give the best dark mode option.
Pro Free & open source
Pro Blocks a wide selection of annoying ads
Video ads on YouTube, Facebook ads, flashy banners, pop-ups, pop-unders and much more.
Cons
Con Very slow
Con Doesn't work on all websites
Con Uses too much RAM
AdBlock+ tends to use a lot of memory, which has been documented in many use cases as well as admitted by AdBlock themselves. Considering there are alternatives out there that can block ads successfully with half the RAM usage as AdBlock, one has to wonder why this is a problem specific to AdBock.
Con Users automatically opted in to whitelist
AdBlock+ has an automatic whitelist when installed that allows certain advertisers through the blocking mechanism. The fact that these advertisers pay for this privilege makes this particular scenario rife with conflict of interest.