Block Me If You Can: A Large-Scale Study of Tracker-Blocking Tools [pdf]

Shoutout to PiHole - https://pi-hole.net/ which falls under the category of DNS blockers. One tiny Raspberry Pi can provide adblocking to all the devices in a network and radically speeds up page loading.

True, you can't block trackers on domains that aren't blacklisted, but on the other hand you can block trackers for all devices on the network.

I had Ghostery installed for years (gets one of the highest blocking marks) but I didn't like that it slowed down Chrome, hogged a lot of memory, and has the capability to send traffic back to a company.

That's quite depressing.

The best defense against tracking, in my humble opinion, is compartmentalization. If you're concerned about X and Y being associated through tracking, compartmentalize them. Use multiple personas, each with its own VM(s) and chains of VPNs and Tor. I don't care at all if everything that Mirimir does online is tracked and associated.