I'm not sure how much that ties in to blocking advertisements. (aside from tracking cookies and web-bugs). Not that I believe most users of Ad-block are thinking about that.
Still, that's one of the reasons I quit Windows. For a few years, now:
* I run Linux only
* even before I switched, I ran non-IE browsers/email
* and my cache, cookies, etc get flushed whenever I close my browser
* I have a daily script to delete "Flash-cookies" (.sol files)
* when I'm using my "secure" computer, I run a proxy that filters web-bugs, etc. (since I'm using Linux, I still get snappier performance than under Windows). I'll probably install one one this box too, now that I've been reminded -- there's 2 or 3 common, easy (pre-configured, even) ones that screen out that stuff.
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