I switch from Adguard, uBlockOrigin, Smartadblock and Trace from time to time.
Trace needs tweaking and knowledge to really become an effective advertisement and privacy powertool. On the positive site its user rules are easy to grasp and powerfull.
SmartAdblock is set and forget. It is adblock and poperblocker in one. It also features nanadefender anti-adblock and cookieprompt killer. On some website it occasionally blocks to much.
uBlockOrigin set the new standard im content blocking. I would only use it as adblocker and disable malware blocklist and run it not in advanced mode,
Adguard offers also a privacy stealth mode, which has 30% of the capabilities of Trace. Adguards scriptlets are very powerfull and easy to learn with well documented examples, so also a joy for power users,