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.
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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.
I use Chrome on my tablet, because the Android version requires less memory. I use Gmail and I was one of the map makers for Google Maps before they did reset the map data and locked editing. Google AdSense was also the primary ad provider for my company in it's early days before they did blacklist companies making networking products. Currently I'm member of Google Local Guides.