Downloaded free windows 10. Just went back to windows 7

Do you mean "Edge"? The re-branded IE browser? No ad-blocker I have found works with it.

Ad-blocking goes against the reasoning behind giving away the software for free in the first place. MS and others (*cough, Google, *coughcough) are taking us down the road towards customized ads all over our daily life just like the sci-fi movies depict. "Hey John, Have you seen..." coming at you from every flat piece of real estate, glass, kiosk, camera, microphone, etc., you come near.

I went Win10 and within a few hours made Firefox my default browser and have never touched IE or Edge again. Opera is my backup browser.

Yes, Edge.
I tried to use it along with "cortana". Seemed like everything I clicked on it would redirect me to a different ad. And then would have another movie ad pop up every 5 minutes it seemed like in its own window. Drove me nuts. I'm not very computer savvy, so I chose to go back to win7. Now I'm seeing pop ups with Firefox. Doing a virus scan, but nothing is showing so far

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MS and others (*cough, Google, *coughcough) are taking us down the road towards customized ads all over our daily life just like the sci-fi movies depict. "Hey John, Have you seen..." coming at you from every flat piece of real estate, glass, kiosk, camera, microphone, etc., you come near.

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They're trying to gentrify us all out of our homes.

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and eventually gave me a virus trying to search for an ad blocker

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you gave yourself that virus

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Is there an ad blocker for windows 10?

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Not using the default internet browser like my Grandmom and all her 80 year old friend would be a good start

I have several issues with 10 that I have never had with any other version of windows and two came after updates. First, 10 linked my computer to my microsoft account and my password became my outlook password. I didn't like it but I could live with it until I needed to change my password. I had to change it through outlook and since it was linked to my comp on an admin account, it made me wait 60 days for security purposes. I found the fix for this and it had to do wit hediting the registry and a few other things. Total pain in the arse to unlink these. The second major issue, I cam home last week to find I could only log into a temp account with no access to my files. The only fix I could find that would work was re-loading windows 7 from a disk. I'll stay with 7 as it's the best version of windows I have ever used next to XP.