Alright so i switched over not too long ago to using firefox + duckduckgo + adblocker ultimate
And let me tell you: it is so SO much better than my previous combo of chrome + ecosia + some other adblocker
WHY?
firefox:
really easy to set up
firefox actually cares about not tracking your every movement on the internet
firefox (like chrome) puts the tabs on top of the search bar as opposed to under it (like safari. safari is stupid because of this. i know this is an odd take to have but I don't much care. why would you break apart the label of a page from the page itself with the labels for different pages??? why???)
doesn't use the same process for different tabs (makes you a harder target for people hacking, also means that if a site is using more cpu than you want killing the offending process in task manager only crashes one tab)
very easy to customize
duckduckgo:
doesn't track your searches
tells you how well a site will honor your privacy and adds some protection
pretty good as a search engine just generally
adblocker ultimate
blocks fuckin everything.
I mean everything. ads. pop ups. cryptomining. known phishing links and online scams. malware. all kinds of trackers (google is a huge offender surprise surprise). anything that you ask it to by clicking "hide element" and then clicking on the thing you want it to hide
doesn't have "pre-whitelisted ads" which are basically ads that companies pay adblockers to whitelist so you still see them
free. you can donate, but it costs no money
tells you how many things it's blocked both lifetime and on a site since you opened it (i usually get a count on google docs of about 230 in 30 minutes yay trackers!)
i have not seen an ad i didn't consent to since I got it
https://adblockultimate.net/ (scroll down for the extension)
