I use a wide range of browsers, Firefox and Pale Moon mainly on the laptop, an older CM browers on the Android and playing with FOSS Browser. They all have either inbuilt or additions to stop ads. One thing I think I've noted but not really experimented with is that there appears to be a difference in behaviour as to whether you go to
http://boards.footymad.net/ or
https://boards.footymad.net/ , the latter seemingly more intrusive re cookies, Digital Media etc. Unless you are worried that someone might be intercepting your browsing of this site the http: is more than adequate for as long as they keep it and your browser allows non-https sites.
Browsing the net really shouldn't be that hard but it seems that web developers insist on non-standard coding suiting one browser rather than another instead of adhering to W3C standards, plus constant barriers of accepting cookies with a list of advertisers as long as your arm. What the heck are these domains doing on this site:
adtech.de
ayads.co
clevernt.com
doubleclick.net
google-analytics.com
omnitagjs.com
sunmediaads.com
I used to set up my hosts file to direct these to 127.0.0.1 but haven't kept it up to date.
The hosts file overrides where the site is found, and 127.0.0.1 is your own machine so it happily goes off to your own machine, finds nothing of course but carries on regardless without google-analytics or whatever being any the wiser. Well, that's how it used to work.