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There was a scene in Law & Order decades ago where Jerry Orbach's character, investigating a murder scene, makes the wry comment, "Oh, suspenders and a belt" after noting a diaphragm and condom wrapper on the nightstand.
uBO is great, but it's not a complete prophylactic. NoScript also ends endless ads loading. A pihole can handle things at the network level. There are numerous ways to maintain internet hygiene that most people don't realize exist, because it's not profitable to give people control over their own devices, so those of us on Firefox (or a derivative) and several extensions are characterized as "crooks who want to steal the internet."
As with politicians, each accusation is an admission.
Ad companies: "I want to use the vast majority of the data allocation you pay for."
Me: "No."
Ad companies: "THIEF!!!!!!!!!!!!"
ubo has a button to disable javascript. For news pages that tends to be the easiest way to make them barely usable.