With ads disabled I don't see ads when I visit the Phoronix website and if I reenable ads I definitely see the difference.
The simple-adblock website does indeed show 'Not working' in both cases (unlike in Firefox+Adblock Plus). Maybe that's a limitation of the adblocking engine in Epiphany. Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on: ii dbus-x11 1.10.6-1 ii epiphany-browser-data 3.18.3-1 ii gnome-icon-theme 3.12.0-1 ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.18.1-1 ii iso-codes 3.64-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.18.0-1 ii libavahi-client3 0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1 ii libavahi-common3 0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1 ii libavahi-gobject0 0.6.32~rc+dfsg-1 ii libc6 2.21-6 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.6-1 ii libcairo2 1.14.6-1 ii libgck-1-0 3.18.0-1 ii libgcr-base-3-1 3.18.0-1 ii libgcr-ui-3-1 3.18.0-1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.32.3-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.2-3 ii libgnome-desktop-3-12 3.18.2-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.18.6-1 ii libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 2.10.4+dfsg1-1 ii libnotify4 0.7.6-2 ii libnspr4 2:4.11-1 ii libnss3 2:3.21-1 ii libp11-kit0 0.23.2-3 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.38.1-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.38.1-1 ii libsecret-1-0 0.18.3-1 ii libsoup2.4-1 2.52.2-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.9.2-1 ii libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.10.4+dfsg1-1 ii libwnck-3-0 3.14.0-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxml2 2.9.3+dfsg1-1 ii libxslt1.1 1.1.28-2.1 Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends: ii ca-certificates 20160104 ii evince 3.18.2-1 ii yelp 3.16.1-1 epiphany-browser suggests no packages. -- Francois Gouget <fgou...@free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ E-Voting: Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.