Click on the more actions button (the button at the top right side of the window depicted by three horizontal dots). Click on Settings .
Scroll down the list of settings and click on View advanced settings . Locate the Block pop-ups option and enable it. Once the option has been enabled, Microsoft Edge should immediately start blocking pop-up ads and you should no longer see any.
Open the Start Menu . Search for Notepad . Right-click on the application named Notepad that appears in the results and click on Run as administrator .
Once notepad opens up, Hold CTRL key and Press O to open Open File dialog, type the following path in the breadcrumb pane, and choose All Files in File Type, choose the Hosts file and click Open.C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
Click (here) and Copy the contents of the downloaded text file and paste them in the hosts file that you opened in Notepad. Press Ctrl + S to save the changes you made to the hosts file and then exit
Restart your computer, and as soon as it boots up, you should see that the number of advertisements displayed by Microsoft Edge during browsing sessions has decreased exponentially, if not diminished entirely.
Solution 2: Download and use the PeerBlock add-on#
