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Updated August 15 2024
The best Adblocker I have found is uBlock Origin. It works in Chrome and Firefox, links are below. This also helps protect you against malware, as malicious ads are a common way that malware gets into a computer. Recent versions of Chrome are about to block a feature that it needs, and so there is a new uBlock Origin Lite version which has less features but will keep working
Chrome:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm
Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
uBlock Origin Lite:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh
How to use it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ-1YMSDmAM
Privacy Badger:
https://privacybadger.org/
Advanced topics:
Block Google/Youtube signin prompts
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/09/27/how-to-deal-with-googles-and-youtubes-aggressive-popups-before-you-continue-sign-in/
Google is killing uBlock Origin in Chrome, but this trick lets you keep it for another year
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