I only use them when I have nothing else to do... Disabling AdBlock for all the sites is a nuisance as they use multiple hostnames and domains. I've also used some other faucets that work even without disabling AdBlock.
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Agreed on the ads. Having to have adblock disabled sucks (which sounds so greedy and wrong but by golly modern day ads blow) but I deal with it. Free stuffs if I ignore your pop ups, sure. The way I do it, when using the Moon sites, is open every single site at one in a tab. Moon cash, dash, BTC, DOGE, LTC, Bitfun.co, and Bonus Bitcoin. I then click claim and either the ad triggers the pop up at that moment, or the pop up happens when I try to finish the captcha.
The general ads and crap are very annoying. I find claiming on mobile seems best for minimal ad bs but it can be a juggle there too. Bonus Bitcoin is best on mobile Chrome, much easier to get in and out without getting clogged by the ridiculous amount of ads they shovel at you. It's worth it as of right now (imo) as the current average claim is 44satoshi, do that as much as possible in between real stuff and you boost those Coinpot numbers. Maybe I'm wasting time but oh well.
I like to think it's not wasting my time if I do it once a day or once a week when I wait something else to finish. I get most of my coins from trading, so small amount of coins that I get from faucets are like a waterdrop in a ocean... I run miners on all my PCs, phones and tablets, so I rarely use my phones for web browsing even though JavaScript support is intentionally limited in mobile browsers, so some annoyances don't work in them.
Yeah, I kinda stopped using them the back end of last year when the prices were really high, just wasn't worth my time. I had some luck with Moon Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin until only a few weeks ago. They still let me withdraw with uBlock and uBlock Origin installed. I think they've updated the site now to detect them too. The ads really do get so annoying.
I wrote my own rules for AdBlock, because the default rules didn't block all the ads and nuisances that for example Facebook and Twitter did show. I barely use their mobile apps because blocking ads in them is next to impossible.
I used to do that, but uBlock Origin seems pretty good at it's job. It can circumvent content blockers and anti-user mechanisms, definitely worth checking out. I don't use any mobile apps if they come with ads, no Facebook or anything like that, like you say, it's next to impossible to get rid of those ads.
I tried AdBlock, AdBlock Plus and uBlock Origin, but it seems the original AdBlock has the most modern blocking features with smallest memory footprint and it works well with Firefox Quantum. Recent versions of Google Chrome don't even start on my old PCs (about 9 years old) because the memory requirements are too high.
I only use mobile apps when I do something really CPU-intensive on my PCs, like compiling software or mining with all cores.
I'll have to take another look at AdBlock, it's been a couple of years since I last used it. I've been meaning to give Firefox Quantum a go, I still use Chrome as my main browser just out of habit really. I've got a similar machine that's coming up to 10 years old, just about runs Win10 but Chrome is a definite no go.
I only use Google Chrome for sites that absolutely require it, like some video streaming sites. Firefox has had better Unicode support for few years already, so I can actually see what people post instead of bunch of empty squares. As a journalist I have to work with young adults that use a lot of emojis in their posts and that has never worked using Chrome without any additional extensions and last usable extension was removed from Chrome store over a year ago.
I use most of Google's services, Gmail etc. so it just kinda made sense to use Chrome for me, although they've removed elements of syncing across devices, but I've just installed Firefox on my laptop and phone and that still does full cross-device syncing so you may have converted me to Firefox.