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I May have an unpopular opinion, but I don’t care about blocking ads except on the computer (and only then, because of how invasive internet ads can get). There has to be a caveat for people to afford producing media, and ads are it. I really don’t like when people are insistent on blocking literally every ad ever because they think it’s automatically evil.
I don't feel the need to block them absolutely everywhere, but then again, I don't watch cable TV hardly at all, in part because of the ads. So, for me, I either don't view something or I block ads. I still don't like seeing the ads! Netflix is ideal for me, it's cheaper than cable and no ads. On the computer, the ads on news sites are really way too much and way too spammy. If I read news articles, I do it on a browser with an ad-blocker installed. Other websites that have just a few ads (e.g. the forum for the Linux distro I use), I'll view on a regular browser without an ad-blocker.
Last of all, I feel that the adblockers are providing a very valuable service to people. Not just because of their personal preferences to avoid ads, but also because of the rise of malvertising, where malware disguised as ads is finding its way onto computers. For that reason alone (avoiding malvertising), I like adblockers.
I block them as much as humanely possible. I've had ads in my face all my life and I'm quite frankly sick to death of seeing them. The only ads I liked were the Get A Mac ads,even so,I never got a Mac. A lad on our little Linux forum tried to install Pi-hole. It's a great idea,but it was so complicated and convoluted that he finally just gave up.
We gave up tv over 10 years due to the crappy shows offered and the never ending ad bombardment. When 21 minutes of a so-called "hour" long tv show is ads,well that's just not worth it to me,even though I've always muted them. I've read ads even run on the bottom of the screen now. It just never ends.
On some shows, they can take up 1/4 to 1/3 of the bottom of the screen.