How to block advertisements (& other recommended Internet Explorer settings)

Recommended settings for Internet Explorer, and how to block (most) website advertisements. Applies to IE 9, 10, 11, and beyond. Not sure about Project Spartan yet. (Update: Project Spartan is Microsoft Edge, and no it does not have any Tracking Protection Lists feature.) If I comment as RoboMWM, that's my commenting channel as I will never ever screw up my channel by linking it to a dead, convoluted social network. (Update: Finally YouTube has removed the G+ requirement to comment.)

I'm sooooo tempted to put ads on this video since it's like my second-popular video... :P

Thanks to Google+ I can't comment without doing all sorts of weird merging and junk-loading. So here's an FAQ:

Q: Why do I still see ads in videos?
A: Videos are either flash-based or HTML5-based, and either way, in simple terms, the video is seen as one element - the video. So IE isn't going to try to mess around with the video itself. There probably is an add-on for IE to facilitate this; please comment if you know where such one is. Personally, I simply use MyTube or TubeCast, which are excellent apps found in the Windows 8/Windows Phone store - both which eliminate all types of YouTube ads completely, as well as having a much better design.

Q: This doesn't work
A: No ad-blocker is perfect. In this case, it depends on what lists you install. However, as long as the personal list is enabled, IE will "learn" which web elements commonly appear (which generally are ads) in websites you visit, and will eventually block them.

Q: The lists you show in this video aren't there
A: Yes, some lists have been removed. Personally, I don't use a list, and I let Internet Explorer figure out the ads itself with the personalized list. However, I believe the Easylist and Easystandard lists replicate the popular add-on Adblocker, so that's probably a good starting point.

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