• Gozzin
    +7

    On top of preventing your computer from being hijacked by criminals and preventing spying by shady and unnamed companies, as the Times itself demonstrated recently, the other benefits of ad blockers are enormous. They cut website load times by more than half in some cases, as well as significantly lowering data usage and increasing battery life on smartphones.

    You really don't need to see my ad rant yet again but this sums things up very well indeed.