Is Web advertising driving you mad too ?

My technique:

• Chrome for Gmail + Google sites only + LFGSS (as we have no adverts) (i.e. long sessions)
  
• Chrome incognito for trusted sources only (i.e. medium sessions like Twitter, Hacker News)
  
• Firefox configured to be in default private browsing mode for everything else (i.e. Amazon, any shopping, any news sites, etc)
  
  

Then:

• uBlock Origin in all browsers
  
• HTTPS everywhere in all browsers
  
• This in my hosts file http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ipv6/hosts
  
  

I configure uBlock Origin to pretty much strictly disallow all 3rd party stuff, except where it physically breaks a site (so on this site I allow Persona, but not much else).

This deals with 99.99% of adverts.

Then for my mobile, and to deal with in-app adverts, or adverts in web views (i.e. those adverts half-way down articles in the Guardian app):

• I run a streisand proxy https://github.com/jlund/streisand/
  
• I install on that proxy server the hosts file mentioned above
  
• I use OpenVPN to connect my Android to the proxy
  
  

That nukes 95% of in-app adverts and tracking.

I just don't see adverts on the web, and my web is fast and responsive. It's a real pleasure.