Here’s what I’m wondering: what Chrome plugins do you use and why?
I use:
What do you use?
Is it just me, or does AdBlock seem to slow down Chrome considerably?
None. Prefer to keep my web browsers as light as possible…
Perhaps it does. I’ve been using it all my life, so I don’t really have a reference without it. To me, it’s worth it to not deal with ads. I do disable it on sites I really want to support, as I understand ads keep sites going. Before YouTube Red, I had it disabled on YouTube. I’m a YouTuber myself and I know how important it is to me to make ad revenue, and I want to support other YouTubers. Now that I have YouTube Red, I don’t need it anymore. But there are a lot of “spammy” sites that take ads over the edge, forcing me to enable ad blocker regardless of if I wanted to support that site or not.
uBlock Origin and Tampermonkey are my two essentials. uBlock seems by far the best ad blocker.
Adblock Plus stands out as my top one.
Adblock for Youtube is there because without it Youtube is so annoying.
So your phone crawls with all the ads you prefer?
I only use AdBlock Plus. It kind of is slower, and I heard somewhere that AdBlock Plus is going to start selling ads to companies.
They already do have a “nice list” that companies can pay to be on, but they have some sort of “regulations” saying that the ads can’t be obnoxious or intrusive. You can disable the list in settings, which I did.
Ok. Thanks for the advice!
Don’t use Chrome on my phone, use Safari. Was meaning Chrome on my desktop. Plus I know which sites to avoid for adware and the like 
Speaking of plugins, I think AdBlock is pretty negative to online business. In fact, I don’t think ads are all that bothersome. I keep it plain and simple. No plugins.
nothing . I like to use it in its simple operation
Yep, I’m with you on this one. When the elderly handed me their computer to fix, it would always be over 30 add-ons they unintentionally installed and it took up a chunk of the bookmark bar up top, and anchored their browser down real good like.
I don’t use add-ons at all. Ads are part of the internet, and there is a way to turn them off straight from Chrome, not individually but as a whole, and at times I like the internet that way, I really just want to get straight to the news without all the fluff! It drives me nuts how much data these sites push out. CNN.com for example, has like two videos playing at once while I’m trying to just read the article, it’s bad! Can’t do it.