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Faster still is DNS-based, network-wide blocking with pi hole.



If that works for you, that's great. But it's a pretty crude tool. Kind of like wood carving with a chainsaw; some people swear by it and it's undeniably efficient, but other tools give you more delicate control. I wouldn't go without ublock origin's cosmetic filters which I use to block many things that aren't ads (such as those annoying floating bars at the top and bottom of the screen a lot of websites use just to annoy users (sorry, "improve conversion") and waste vertical screen space.) uMatrix (and to a lesser degree, advanced mode in ublock origin) also lets you differentiate between blocking on first party or 3rd party. For instance I block youtube on every website except youtube.com




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