Do they get some kind of real-time feed that tells them “hey this URL popped up in the web today, but it is a tracker, so block it”, or is this exercise is mostly helped by the crowd ?

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      Maybe a general pop-up blocker which is built into modern browsers now, but something that blocks tracking and ads (for example uBlock Origin, AdGuard Home, PiHole…) works off of a list which is kept up to date by crowdsourcing. I’ve never contributed to one of these efforts, but there are lots of people dedicated to the cause.

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      The problem with this approach is that the companies will just change the way ads are shown. DNS blocking is impossible to stop, provides you block every ad website.