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Ghostery + NoScript does just fine. Apparently people don't know but, NoScript also blocks flash, silverlight, and html5 videos/storage. I didn't even know Youtube had Ads until I went to a friend's house.

Adblock is one of the worst plugins you can ever install if you still wish to use your browser without hogging resources.

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Chrome based browsers have µBlock[1] and µMatrix[2] extensions to mitigate this very issue of hogging resources. Unfortunately these are not ported to Firefox yet.

EDIT: Links to source code for both

[1]https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

[2]https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

NoScript is one of the worst plugins you can ever install if you want to have a modern web experience without per-site configuration. Meanwhile, Ghostery caused a number of web sites to stop working for me - commenting in particular, IIRC, but it's been a few years.

ABP could be better implemented, for sure, but mostly it just works.

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