When comparing Decentraleyes vs AdBlock Plus, the Slant community recommends Decentraleyes for most people. In the question“What are the best Firefox add-ons?” Decentraleyes is ranked 3rd while AdBlock Plus is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose Decentraleyes is:
This supports other privacy extensions and behavioural usage of the browser to minimize data snooping by bad actors. The tracking this extension prevents by high degree of resources is impressive. Without this extension outside sources will be hailed to 'bring' the resources for whatever website your own from an external source, which can log you when you make use of these services.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Intercepts traffic, finds supported resources locally, and injects them into the environment
This supports other privacy extensions and behavioural usage of the browser to minimize data snooping by bad actors.
The tracking this extension prevents by high degree of resources is impressive.
Without this extension outside sources will be hailed to 'bring' the resources for whatever website your own from an external source, which can log you when you make use of these services.
Pro Thomas Rientjes (git handle), made this extension compatible with Palemoon and legacy clients as well
More platforms to use this useful extension on.
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 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.