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Blockbear hasn’t been updated in 7 years. Is it still relevant?
Just use uBlock Origin and avoid Google chrome and you are good.
uBlock origin uses blacklists, so it's not perfect. I use uMatrix, so I have fine-grained control, and by default javascript and cookies are disabled, I only enable them for some domains if needed. you could also just block all JS...
https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother
2 no, umatrix is unique. uMatrix has this:
uBlock origin has this in 'advanced' mode:
soure of the images: https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/addons.xhtml#umatrix