What is the best free adblock? - title

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If you only care about blocking ads, then you only really need uBlock Origin. However, if you want a bit of extra privacy/security, then you should consider adding a couple more:
HTTPS Everywhere
This probably isn't as necessary as it was about 8 or so years back, but I still have it installed just in case.
CSS Exfil Protection
I have this installed on every machine that I use. You probably aren't going to run into a CSS Exfiltration exploit, but why take the risk?
uMatrix
This is uBlock Origin's autistic brother. It uses a grid system with content types (cookies, CSS, images, media, scripts, XHR, iframes, and other) as columns and domains as rows, and will either block or allow content through based on what you have selected. If you're connecting to a site that relies heavily on scripts and frames hosted elsewhere, then that site will not work the first time you visit it. It might not even render any content because modern web design is so heavily reliant on CDNs and frameworks. You will have to allow content from the necessary domains and then refresh to see if you picked all of the right ones. The domains that you just allowed through may, in turn, have dependencies from other domains that didn't show up in uMatrix the first time, so you'll need to allow those through as well. Needless to say, this can be very obnoxious, but as long as you save the changes then you won't have to do it on future visits. You can modify the default behavior to make it more or less strict about what's allowed through. The upside to this is that I have not seen a single advertisement in years. The only "please disable your adblocker" things that I see are the ones that you can dismiss. It's been great.
ClearURLs
This removes tracking elements from URLs. It doesn't always work, but it does work for Google search results and GMail links, which is reason enough to use it IMO.
Fascist Kirk said:
Run Brave web browser, I got it 5 years ago, never had an ad since.
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Nicholas II of Russia said:
Brave browser. I can't stress this enough.
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>le shill lion
 
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I use brave for browsing the internet and it works. I'm too lazy to add one for YouTube. I just use the YouTube app. When an ad plays I mute my phone and look away and count the duration of the ad, or 5 seconds for the skippable ones. It's free and no effort. A side effect is I've gotten really good at accurately telling how many seconds has passed. I used to suck at accurately timing things without a watch. Now I can do it very accurately
 
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it depends on what platform you are on, ublock is the best pc has to offer but even that has goone down if only for a few hours before working again, on mobile the browsing through the ABP browser app has worked consistently even whenever all of my pc browsing extensions are temporarily down.
 
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