I actually haven’t used an ad blocker in a very long time. I block third-party cookies and trackers, and disturbingly that seems to prevent almost all advertising from working. In fact I frequently get told by sites to turn off my ad blocker, which is impossible since there’s nothing to turn off.

My bigger problem is that these browsers have no good way to clean out the “IndexedDB”, “Service Worker” and “File System” directories in my profile. They are essentially frankenstein cookies that have no expiration date so they keep accumulating. I use the “Cookie Auto Delete” extension for cleaning them up since the functionality is missing in the browser, but it looks like that will stop working with Manifest V3. Once that happens I’m switching back to Firefox or some other browser that gives me enough control to avoid being tracked, and to save 10+ GB of disk space.