Today we will determine the effectiveness of different blocker
such as Ghostery, Adblock Ultimate and Ublock Origin
which are extension of browser’s and their work is to block Ad’s popping up
while browsing through websites on your browser.
To make use of these extension’s you need to install and
enable them. We will determine the strength of these Ad Blocker’s by checking
the number of HTTP GET Request they allow a website to generate which is
explained as follows.
Let’s start!!
Examine HTTP Request
without any Ad-blocker
Using Burp suite in our usual way without any
Extension or Ad-Blocker enabled. Then we have turn off the intercept tab after capturing the request of the website.
Click
on HTTP History Tab under the Proxy Tab, where we see that the website has made 122 HTTP GET requests. These requests are generated without any extension
enabled.
Examine Adblock Ultimate Extension
Similar next we have intercepted the request of the website CNN.com when installed AdBlock Ultimate is
enable in our Firefox.
Next we have intercepted the request of the website CNN.com when installed AdBlock Ultimate is
enable in our Firefox. Then we have turn off the intercept tab after capturing the request of the website.
Click on HTTP History
Tab under the Proxy Tab, where we see that the website has
made 116 HTTP GET requests. As you can see the number of
request have reduced which shows the strength.
Examine Ghostery Extension
Similar next we have intercepted the request of the website CNN.com when installed Ghostry is
enable in our Firefox.
Using
Burp suite in our usual way but with Ghostery
Exntension enabled. Then we have turn off the intercept tab after capturing the request of the website.
Click on HTTP History
Tab under the Proxy Tab, where we see that the website has
made 113 HTTP GET requests. As you can see the number of
request have reduced which shows the strength of the Ghostery Exntension is better than AdBlock Ultimate Exntension.
Examine UBlock Origin
We have intercepted the request of the website CNN.com when ublock origin is enabled.
Using Burp suite in our usual way but with Ublock Origin Exntension enabled.
Before capturing the request of the website you need to install the Exntension
and Enable it. Then we have turn off the intercept
tab after capturing the request of the website.
Click on HTTP History
Tab under the Proxy Tab, where we see that the website has
made 110 HTTP GET requests. As you can see the number of
request have reduced which shows the strength of the Ublock Origin Exntension.
Conclusion: looking
at conclusion from given below table you can decide whose strength is better.
|
S.No
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Browser Ad-blocker
|
Captured HTTP Request
|
|
1
|
Without Ad-blocker
|
122 HTTP GET
|
|
2
|
AdBlock Ultimate
|
116 HTTP GET
|
|
3
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Ghostery
|
116 HTTP GET
|
|
4
|
Ublock Origin
|
110 HTTP GET
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