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by lstamour 3932 days ago
That said, none are perfect. Swapping between all three and reloading Slate.com, it seemed impossible to block an after-page-load ad inserted at the top of the article via JS.

Except when I ran Purify with Scripts disabled on Slate, then the page loaded instantly with no ad for obvious reasons. (Sadly Purify is missing an extension to selectively enable JS.)

Searching the store, Blockr looks nice enough, specifically calling out blocking of Cookie Warnings, but other than that, seems like a more configurable Crystal with features of Peace.

1Blocker which I have yet to use, currently takes the cake on configurability -- perhaps too much so -- it lets you turn on and off individual rules as well as add your own by typing in the filter directly.

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I don't mind most ads, but I'd happily pay just to block EU cookie warnings (with a good UX).
I guess the easiest way to do that would be to collect the "EU cookie warning seen"-cookies.
Can't one keep more than a single blocker active at the same time?
Yes, I ultimately don't want to though for both performance and debugging purposes. If something goes wrong, I'd rather easily know who did it. But yes, I would prefer if say, a "no script" content blocker specifically focused on that, an "ad block" one on that, a "privacy" one too... You could also combine apps to block regional ad variants, maybe, if in future country-specific ones are developed. Running more than one might work best for something like 1Blocker as a way to add your own block rules...
In Setting ->Safari -> Content Blocker,

You can Enable/Disable each one, so you may enable all at the same time

You can enable more than one blocker at a time.