I've seen a few videos where they talk about ads, and the ads are getting worse because we are blocking ads, but we are blocking ads because they are annoying. But the worse ads are because they have to either increase the number or take ads that are more shady, but those blocking those ads won't see the ads... But the people still viewing the ads will get annoyed depending on the stupid crap they are doing to get the ads viewed.


I don't get it... Ads done right are fine, however I've seen ads thrown in where it totally screws with everything. Banner ads are fine (top and bottom and maybe a middle one) long and thin. However huge ads, a third of the screen or two thirds (both sides) flashing ads, ads using flash (they are different) and tons of others just don't work well. I especially hate ads that force you to sit there 5+ seconds unable to move to the 'actual' page until you've seen the ad, especially since I can't see the ad so I just see the 'next button is greyed out for a bit...'. This includes Youtube or Twitch.tv Ads where they force you to watch ads in SUPER DUPER HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO AND SCREW IF YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE A LIMITED DATA PLAN!!! ads.

uBlock Origin it's literally a dedicated firewall for ads (a point-and-click firewall which can be configured on a per-site basis). You go into the advanced-user mode and then it will show you every connection to every website a webpage is trying to make. You just block and or allow what you desire. You can do this globally (for every websites) or locally (for the current website).
Like I said, a very highly recommended product!

uBlock Origin and Ghostery, both on Pale Moon.
The 1st for add blocking, the 2nd to block all the Facebook, Twitter and Google crap.

just stay with ad block plus.
I tried ublock and others but ad block plus is still the best (at least on firefox... on opera and webkit browser ad block are all the same).

I'm currently using uBlock and Disconnect.

Adblock Plus was also forked to Adblock Latitude in order to stay compatible with Pale Moon.

Another vote for uBlock Origin.

One more for uBlock Origin, and the extra comment that there's also an Edge version. Now all I want is a greasemonkey/tampermonkey variant for Edge.

Does it come with an element hiding/blocking-on-the-fly feature?

Just like some of the others in here have already recommended, uBlock Origin. It's resource light and simple to use while still having advanced features (plus its darker red icon goes better with dark browser themes)

Request Policy looks a lot like what I'd like to have done, and what others are saying ublock origin does. Ah, the link you gave says there is a new version now named Request Policy Continued. From the descriptions and screenshots it seems very compact. Thank you, maybe I'll reconsider and use that while I figure out a computer wide approach with the firewall. Especially since I might end up too busy to figure out pfctl that came with the Mac OS.

There is probably a shortcut for it, but you can click the uBlock Origin logo, and choose Element picker mode (the icon looks like a pen or something), where you can pick whatever you want to get it blocked. It feels a bit more cumbersome than the expansion to AdBlock Plus, but overall I'm very pleased with uBlock Origin.

And like Judas said, if a site prevents me from reading their content due to having a spam blocker, then that site can make a running jump off a cliff. I can't stand spam on TV, radio, internet or in public, so without add-ons like uBlock Origin, I would have to stop using the internet. That would kinda suck.

I read there is a bit of a weapons race now between fakebook and spam blockers, but I don't use that vile privacy invasion site, so personally it doesn't matter very much -- though I of course hope the spam blockers will be able to block all the spam that fakebook are hurling at its users.

As will i...