The problem isn't the ads themselves. It's what they do to the experience of browsing. Increase loading times, reduce responsiveness, use up metered data (impor

The problem isn't the ads themselves. It's what they do to the experience of browsing. Increase loading times, reduce responsiveness, use up metered data (important on mobile), spy on you, install malware. There are too many bad actors out there using ads Networks for malicious things or just don't care to pay attention to the user experience. So it just makes good sense to by default turn off the features that are being misused rather than give everyone the benefit of the doubt. The solution of using micro transactions doesn't address the issue of bad actors ruining the system for everyone else. So I think it might be killed faster than ads.