It's kind of upsetting finding out about stuff like this, that you don't know it could exist.
Adblock is interesting because for adblock to work, you need some engineer hours working to find a good filter to delete ads on websites that don't have active countermeasures, and potentially in websites all over the world in languages as well (I'm bilingual, and I see that ublock origin still works in non-english websites).
Now if you throw in websites with active adblock countermeasures, it seems the proposition that a free, mostly self-governed extension all has that figured out just seems impossible, but it seems to work quite well (albeit with a few notable blocking failures, especially at Facebook which has extremely aggressive anti-adblock features)
Adblock is interesting because for adblock to work, you need some engineer hours working to find a good filter to delete ads on websites that don't have active countermeasures, and potentially in websites all over the world in languages as well (I'm bilingual, and I see that ublock origin still works in non-english websites).
Now if you throw in websites with active adblock countermeasures, it seems the proposition that a free, mostly self-governed extension all has that figured out just seems impossible, but it seems to work quite well (albeit with a few notable blocking failures, especially at Facebook which has extremely aggressive anti-adblock features)