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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 949578" data-attributes="member: 78686">Adblcoker&#039;s filter lists are much more enriched than built-in protection provided by the browsers (Maybe Brave is an exception) and even DNS-based solutions. Two, three weeks ago I wanted to watch a tennis match (Djokovic vs Nadal, French Open Semifinal) on a site on my mobile using Microsoft Edge with Strict protection and NextDNS as the DNS but couldn&#039;t because of constant VPN ads on the site. Opened the same site on Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin and watched for an hour without any ads whatsoever. So there goes just one real-life example. Besides, the OP said, he uses Google Chrome which doesn&#039;t have built-in tracking/ads protection and not everyone will be willing to use NextDNS/Adguard DNS/piHole type solutions. Like, I&#039;m using Cloudflare on my PC now as it&#039;s the fastest for me. As gorhill says, uBlock Origin is not just an ad blocker, it is a content blocker. It does a lot more. Also ads like &quot;There&#039;s a hot girl in your area, click here to talk to her&quot; are not usually blocked by any built-in or DNS-based solutions. These types are ads are mostly malvertisements and believe it or not plenty of people still fall for this. So, an adblocker is one of the first lines of defense in a browser. Oh also, only adblockers can block YouTube ads (Exception: Adguard Desktop).You have an opinion and I have a different one. Isn&#039;t it obvious that all of our opinions won&#039;t match? There are many things I agree with you and there are also many things I disagree with you. This is not exclusive to you. This is true for everyone on the forum. This is normal and it happens always in real life too. So there&#039;s nothing personal about it.You see those cookie banners because you rely on built-in and DNS-based protection which can&#039;t block/hide them. I use uBlock Origin with appropriate filters so I don&#039;t see any cookie notices. Good for me. Deleting cookies isn&#039;t a must. Even I don&#039;t usually delete those but sometimes we visit some random sites that we may not visit anytime soon so deleting cookies would get rid of those unnecessary ones. One can also manually delete them separately from the browser of course. But blocking all third-party cookies is very important in my opinion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 949578, member: 78686"] Adblcoker's filter lists are much more enriched than built-in protection provided by the browsers (Maybe Brave is an exception) and even DNS-based solutions. Two, three weeks ago I wanted to watch a tennis match (Djokovic vs Nadal, French Open Semifinal) on a site on my mobile using Microsoft Edge with Strict protection and NextDNS as the DNS but couldn't because of constant VPN ads on the site. Opened the same site on Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin and watched for an hour without any ads whatsoever. So there goes just one real-life example. Besides, the OP said, he uses Google Chrome which doesn't have built-in tracking/ads protection and not everyone will be willing to use NextDNS/Adguard DNS/piHole type solutions. Like, I'm using Cloudflare on my PC now as it's the fastest for me. As gorhill says, uBlock Origin is not just an ad blocker, it is a content blocker. It does a lot more. Also ads like "There's a hot girl in your area, click here to talk to her" are not usually blocked by any built-in or DNS-based solutions. These types are ads are mostly malvertisements and believe it or not plenty of people still fall for this. So, an adblocker is one of the first lines of defense in a browser. Oh also, only adblockers can block YouTube ads (Exception: Adguard Desktop). You have an opinion and I have a different one. Isn't it obvious that all of our opinions won't match? There are many things I agree with you and there are also many things I disagree with you. This is not exclusive to you. This is true for everyone on the forum. This is normal and it happens always in real life too. So there's nothing personal about it. You see those cookie banners because you rely on built-in and DNS-based protection which can't block/hide them. I use uBlock Origin with appropriate filters so I don't see any cookie notices. Good for me. Deleting cookies isn't a must. Even I don't usually delete those but sometimes we visit some random sites that we may not visit anytime soon so deleting cookies would get rid of those unnecessary ones. One can also manually delete them separately from the browser of course. But blocking all third-party cookies is very important in my opinion. [/QUOTE]

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