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This is probably the best place to say it...
From January 2023 ad-blockers on Chrome will no longer work https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/27/google_chrome_manifest_v2_extensions/
You have 15 months to fully migrate your browser to something else if you want to not be constantly tracked and under surveillance by the ad industry on the web.
There's only one viable alternative, and that is Firefox.
Example of why your choice does not include Safari: https://caniuse.com/ping . The ping attribute on anchors sends a tracking ping back to a source when the link is clicked. Only Firefox refused to add this.
That kind of thing spans every bit of the philosophy of Chrome, Safari and Firefox... Firefox being the only one that actually seeks to protect privacy.
How I use browsers:
Additionally with Firefox I use NoScript... I browse the internet with JavaScript disabled, only enabling it if a site is broken and I really want to view the site. It's rare that I need to, most sites are improved by JS being disabled, i.e. something like a news site works great with JS disabled but is unreadable with it enabled.
When JS is enabled, then on Firefox I also use uBlock.
Below all of this is NextDNS and network level blocking. Some things like Facebook are 100% blocked on my network (including all of the companies they own).
The internet is wonderful without advertising.