How to Block ~99.9% of Ads on Websites Including YouTube

As Well as a Majority of Cookie Banners, Annoying Popups, etc...

Do you want web pages to load faster? Want the annoying junk out of your way? Ad-free YouTube (cancel that YouTube Premium subscription)? Look no further! This short guide will tell you how to easily achieve this!!

Using a good content blocker such as uBlock Origin can save you time, mobile data, and enhance your privacy. There is no losing in using it.

On a Linux, Windows, or macOS Computer

• Install Mozilla Firefox: [Download for Linux/Windows/macOS]
• Install uBlock Origin: [Download for Firefox]

Continue to learn how to enable and add filters for annoying cookie banners and other things...

• Click on the uBlock Origin extension icon. It might be under the extensions menu which looks like a puzzle piece.
• You'll see the settings icon which are a bunch of gears. Click it to open the dashboard.

• Go to the filter lists tab and enable whatever you want. The lists are categorised, so if you want to get rid of cookie notices, scroll down a bit and check the boxes. Click the apply changes button and you're good to go.

• You can even add other blocklists to uBlock Origin from a variety of different sources from the Internet. For example, there are filters to block YouTube Shorts and to bypass paywalls on some websites! :O

• Simply paste links to whatever blocklists you find in the import box and apply changes!

• Go ahead and the blocklists below to improve your Web experience!
• Click to Load Embeds: https://github.com/yokoffing/filterlists/blob/main/click2load.txt
• Bypass Paywalls: https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters
• Hide YouTube Shorts: https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
• Huge AI Blocklist: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

I was going to write about how to do it on an Android phone, but it's pretty much the same. Save some mobile data using this! Also, ad-free YouTube can be achieved on an application such as NewPipe or LibreTube. You have options.