If you watch videos on YouTube, you may have noticed that some of them start with an ad, that is usually skippable after a certain amount of seconds. You don't even need a separate pop up blocker for Chrome. uBlock Origin gives you a cleaner version of web pages, that is devoid of distractions, trackers and malicious scripts, without breaking the site. Just imagine how nice the page could look, if there weren’t any of these annoyances. Many good articles often look terrible, because the site placed an ad after every paragraph or on the sides. uBlock Origin blocks the ads automatically, allowing a greater control over your privacy.

Some web services have come under scrutiny for harvesting user data, and even selling them to third-parties. This can be annoying to see, and your browsing habits are also tracked by the ad server. So if you searched about cars or televisions, you will see ad banners about these on many sites that you visit. to find what you like, products you may be interested in, to display advertisements that are relevant to your online activity, aka targeted ads. When you visit a web page or perform a search query, your browser stores some information about it in the form of a cookie. You may have to toggle the add-on, or purge the cache if web pages aren’t rendering properly, e.g.Does not prevent affiliate URLs from tracking you.Slightly complex interface compared to AdGuard.

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