The advertisers have only themselves to blame for this mess. They've been abusing users for two decades now: pop-ups, pop-unders, flashing ads, auto-play video

The advertisers have only themselves to blame for this mess. They've been abusing users for two decades now: pop-ups, pop-unders, flashing ads, auto-play videos, and now serving outright malware. They've utterly refused to take responsibility for their actions, and only blame users for blocking their ads, despite these ads making it nearly impossible to actually view websites (like when closing a pop-up window causes dozens more pop-up windows to appear) and trashing peoples' systems. Now they want us to feel sorry for them? No.