Chrome's move to Manifest V3 forced every blocker to give something up. This page sets out what each one lost, what it kept, and where AdBlo differs — including the places where a competitor is the better choice.
Disclosure: AdBlo publishes this page and AdBlo is our own product, so treat the framing accordingly. Everything stated about the other extensions is drawn from their own documentation and public behaviour. Where a rival is genuinely better, we say so — see the section on Firefox.
Every row is a thing you can check yourself in each extension's settings or documentation.
| Feature | AdBlo | uBO Lite | AdGuard | Adblock Plus | AdBlock | Ghostery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No “acceptable ads” whitelist | Yes | Yes | Yes | On by default | On by default | Yes |
| Free, no paid tier | Yes | Yes | Free ext, paid app | Yes | Free + premium | Free + premium |
| Open source | GPL-3.0 | GPL-3.0 | GPL-3.0 | GPL-3.0 | Partly | MPL-2.0 |
| Element picker | Full | Not included | Full | Basic | Basic | No |
| Scriptlet injection | 8 primitives | Not included | Yes | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Per-site pause with a timer | 5 options | On/off only | On/off only | On/off only | Pause all sites | On/off only |
| Automatic breakage diagnosis | Bisector | No | No | No | No | No |
| Built-in health check | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Device lockdown (cam/mic/WebRTC) | Stealth mode | No | WebRTC only | No | No | No |
| Backup / export settings | Plain JSON file | Limited | Yes | Limited | Sync account | Limited |
| Works on current Chrome | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
AdBlo is new in 2026. A mature blocker with years of filter maintenance behind it has an advantage no feature table captures — weigh that alongside the rows above.
Adblock Plus and AdBlock both operate an acceptable-ads whitelist that is enabled by default, and large advertisers pay to participate in it. You can switch it off in the settings of both. AdBlo has no such programme — not off by default, but absent entirely.
uBlock Origin Lite is a deliberate reduction of uBlock Origin, and its own documentation says it is less effective against sites using anti-adblock techniques. AdBlo started from the Manifest V3 API rather than shrinking to fit it, which is why the picker and scriptlets survived.
Every blocker lets you disable itself on a site. Almost none let you say for how long. That is how people end up with a whitelist of forty sites they unblocked once in 2023. AdBlo's pauses expire on a timer and show a countdown.
The standard advice is to disable lists one at a time and reload until it works. AdBlo automates that as a binary search: nine possible culprits become about four questions, then a one-click fix. It is the feature we would miss most if we switched away.
The full uBlock Origin on Firefox is more capable than any Manifest V3
blocker, AdBlo included. It can inspect each request individually with
knowledge of the page that asked for it — something Chrome's declarative
API does not hand back. If your only requirement is maximum blocking power
and you are willing to change browser, that is the better answer.
AdBlo exists for people who are staying on Chrome. Within that constraint
we think it is the best option. Outside it, we are not going to pretend.
Run both for a week. Keep whichever one you stop noticing.
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