How to browse websites in 2025: 13 simple steps

Just posting here the always relevant reminder that Firefox still has real ad-blockers.

Now age verification should be added to the list, especially if you want to browse 18+ sites like about how to pay taxes or learn to drive

Adblock as a concept has existed for 20+ years. No excuse to be so willfully ignorant of it.

My websites: no cookies, no tracking, a few KB of JS, rest is pure HTML and CSS. My sites load 10x faster. Meanwhile every other company is running some overly bloated WP. Its kinda of mind blowing how dumb some of these sites are.

And then they sell you LLMs as the solution.

1. (optional) Set up a pihole or pull something like stevenblacks hosts to your /etc/hosts
2. Install a adblock browser extension
3. Browse website

What about the step where you change VPN servers because cloudflare blocked the first one you used?