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<blockquote data-quote="Arequire" data-source="post: 939073" data-attributes="member: 59283">I&#039;d probably still block ads on my phone, as they inflate data usage and have a quantifiable cost associated with them. But on desktop, yeah, I&#039;d probably stop blocking ads too.The thing is, if I were going to use the built-in protections I&#039;d want them to wholly replace extensions, not compliment them. And as an Edge user, Tracking Prevention is not a viable alternative. It&#039;s associated filter list hasn&#039;t been updated for an entire month now, you can&#039;t add custom filters, and its strictly a tracker blocker, not an ad blocker, so while it does block requests to major third-party ad networks, it doesn&#039;t include domains for lesser networks. It also doesn&#039;t block requests from domains owned by the same parent organisation as the visited website.You can drop HTTPS Everywhere. <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-only-prefs#w_enable-https-only-mode" target="_blank">Firefox has a built-in HTTPS-only mode.</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arequire, post: 939073, member: 59283"] I'd probably still block ads on my phone, as they inflate data usage and have a quantifiable cost associated with them. But on desktop, yeah, I'd probably stop blocking ads too. The thing is, if I were going to use the built-in protections I'd want them to wholly replace extensions, not compliment them. And as an Edge user, Tracking Prevention is not a viable alternative. It's associated filter list hasn't been updated for an entire month now, you can't add custom filters, and its strictly a tracker blocker, not an ad blocker, so while it does block requests to major third-party ad networks, it doesn't include domains for lesser networks. It also doesn't block requests from domains owned by the same parent organisation as the visited website. You can drop HTTPS Everywhere. [URL='https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-only-prefs#w_enable-https-only-mode']Firefox has a built-in HTTPS-only mode.[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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