For actual blocking, I run a Pi-hole on a VPS that connects to multiple DNSCrypt servers that I control, which block everything I want while improving privacy. Planning on replacing Pi-hole with AdGuard Home for DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS, since I want to have this server public at some point, for others to use.
If anyone is interested in testing, shoot me an email at root@jamespond.co. No logging, DNSSEC, disk encryption, Canonical Livepatch, 24/7 monitoring and completely open source.
I like not paying directly for content and accept that ads and tracking are the price I "pay". I personally don't feel comfortable taking something without holding up my end of the bargain.
It's really not a big deal. Sometimes I see products I want to buy or things I looked at and forgot about and end up buying them.
It's also not the horrific and torturous experience I read about on here. I wonder if I'm just going to the wrong sites lol?
If you're paying nothing or just a little, and/or it's very fast then the extra time/cost of the ad content is negligible.
On the other hand, if your internet connection is slow, expensive or you have a small monthly quota, then any time or cost involved in downloading largish volumes of ad content becomes a huge fraction of your costs.
I once had a monthly quota of two gigabytes when travelling. An average of only 60 megabytes per day. It doesn't take many two-three megabyte webpages full of ads to soak up that 60MB daily quota.
I don't get to pay less at Nordstroms because I don't make as much money as a surgeon. I shop at Gap or a thrift store instead.
Either go to different sites or don't visit those sites at all.
Despite what so many posters here seem to think, it's not a god-given right to read the NYT without looking at ads lol.
[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-ios
iOS - Safari with AdGuard as content blocker