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I must be a strange person because I don’t run any adblocker… if I happen to need to visit an ad stricken site I just toggle on reader mode. Get my info and get out… I never have to worry about clicking on a search result and it doing nothing … but also I rarely visit these ad sites…. For the cookie banners I just inspect and delete the elements when they get in the way…

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> I never have to worry about clicking on a search result and it doing nothing

I can't remember the last time I noticed that the ad blocker even existed on my machine. Occasionally some clever site will basically say "if you can see this, we're supported by ads and could use your help" -- but it doesn't break things and I don't see ad links in search results.

Do they remove the cookie banners?

A lot of food ordering websites don’t work for me on ublock origin. Banks are also 50/50. Reddit will occasionally flag me for bot traffic.

An ad blocker would save you some extra clicks.

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