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> Why don't browsers have adblocking built in?

Firefox has built-in tracker blocking, which has the side effect of blocking a lot of ads and makes your pages load faster:

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/tracking-protection-always-...

Brave also has built-in tracker blocking:

https://brave.com/

> I use 1Blocker, and it has a clunky UI where you can point the cursor at a page element to block that specific element.

uBlock Origin has a similar feature. I think it works smoothly in Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...



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