Best Ad Blockers For Chrome: Adblocking or ad filtering is very important for any internet user as it helps you to protect yourself and your data from manipulating cybercriminals. It is a software capability for eliminating or altering online advertising in a web browser or an application. It helps in protecting your privacy, from malvertising, better user experience and much more. Let’s find out the best ad blockers for Chrome.

Best Ad Blockers For Chrome 

Adblock Plus (ABP)

Developed by Eyeo GmbH (Wladimir Palant), which is a German software development company, Adblock Plus (ABP) is an open-source browser extension which is used for content-filtering as well as adblocking.

Adblock Plus blocks ads with trackers as well as spiteful downloads which are attached to them but at the same time does allow genuine, or acceptable ads through that tend in order to help websites earn a few profits.

The extension has been released for Mozilla Firefox- which also comprises of Firefox for mobile- Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge (beta version), Opera, Safari and Yandex Browser, as well as Android. It uses an open-source code that, if tech-savvy, you can alter along with adding on some new features. It is also free at the Chrome Store.

Fair AdBlocker by STANDS

Well, most of us have heard about Fair AdBlocker as it is highly rated among users. it is very effective and useful to block annoying ads, popups, malware as well as tracking- also includes on Facebook & Youtube- browse faster, along with protecting your privacy.

It also blocks pop-up ads, overlay as well as expanding ads or ads that show in email accounts, such as Yahoo and AOL. It also helps in stopping such videos from automatically playing and comprises of advanced filters to block ads on Facebook as well in Google search results. It is also free at the Chrome Store.

uBlock Origin

As a free and open-source, uBlock Origin is one of the best-recommended ad blockers for Chrome. It is cross-platform browser extension for content-filtering, which also comprises of ad-blocking. It has also received praise from various technology websites. The extension is also accessible for many browsers such as Chrome, Chromium, Edge, Firefox, Opera and Safari (beta).

uBlock Origin is reported to be much less memory-intensive as compared to other extensions that provide the same functionality. The purpose stated by uBlock Origin is to give users the means to impose their own (content-filtering) choices.

Ghostery

Another popular ad blocker for Chrome is Ghostery, which is a free and open-source privacy and security-related browser extension and mobile browser application. Ghostery is available for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Safari, iOS, Android, as well as Firefox for Android, as of the year 2017.  Ghostery lets its users to effortlessly detect and control JavaScript “tags” as well as “trackers”. It helps in blocking both pop-ups as well as banner ads in online content. It is available free at the Chrome Store.

Ghostery also helps to stop social media ad trackers as well as website cookies by taking you to the privacy policy and also to the opt-out pages, which are most of the time hard to find. It also stops site analytic programs along with prohibiting video ads from automatically starting.