I do not want to be manipulated into buying stuff I don't need either. Yet advertising is how free websites stay free, they also collect data and sell it. I do

I do not want to be manipulated into buying stuff I don't need either. Yet advertising is how free websites stay free, they also collect data and sell it. I don't mind some ads, but some websites go overboard on ads and have more ads than content. What really annoys me are pop-up ads or ads that launch a new web browser window. Then there are ads that play some video and has someone talking in it. Then there are free download sites but some of the download buttons are ads that download adware stuff. Only one download button is the correct one. I can resist most ads, and I really cannot afford to buy things I see advertising for. I use UBlock Origin because some sites started to detect Adblock and refuse to show content. This Brave web browser is just the next in a line of ad blockers it is a web browser with an ad blocker built in. Advertising has gotten out of control and I pity the person without some sort of ad blocker that doesn't know any better and clicks on ads to get tool bars and other stuff installed. In order to combat ad blockers some sites have gone behind a paywall and need an account with a subscription to view content. Going back to the newspaper business model of subscribers and away from the free website paid for with ads. Some advertising like Adsense are not so bad, I don't mind those ads so much because they are not annoying.