website still says ad block is use and to remove it

Hello Emily,

Usually, it's not the ad blocker itself, it's that the site cached a "you had an ad blocker" flag, or something else on your end is still tripping the detection. A quick checklist usually clears it:

• Try InPrivate mode as a quick sanity check — if the site loads fine in InPrivate with extensions off, you've narrowed it to either a cookie or an extension.
• In Edge: click the lock icon in the address bar > Cookies and site permissions > Manage and delete cookies and site data > search the site and delete its entries, then reload. A lot of anti-adblock walls live in a cookie, so this alone often fixes it.
• Lock icon > Tracking prevention for this site > turn it off, then reload. Edge's Strict/Balanced tracking blockers can look like an ad blocker to the site.
• Check for other extensions that block ads or trackers — uBlock, Privacy Badger, Ghostery, Malwarebytes Browser Guard, Norton AntiTrack, DuckDuckGo, etc. Disable them all temporarily and reload; if the wall goes away, turn them back on one by one to find the culprit.
• Disable VPN or system-level ad blockers if you're using any (NordVPN's Threat Protection, AdGuard system app, Pi-hole on your network, etc.) — those blocks at the network level and the site can't tell the difference.

Just asking, which site is it, and are you using a VPN? Some sites (sports streams, news paywalls) are aggressive enough that the only fix is whitelisting + clearing cookies; others trip on almost any privacy setting.