Because most of the developments are a net loss for the user.^1 The most important benefit of an ad blocker is not that it blocks ads, the most important benefi

Because most of the developments are a net loss for the user.^1 The most important benefit of an ad blocker is not that it blocks ads, the most important benefit is, that the web is a lot faster. I basically stopped surfing on my tablet, because after 2 seconds some ad network comes around to finally deliver an ad, and the entire site jumps around. I lose the place what I just read, and from time to time I actually click some ad by accident ( I wanted to scroll when the site suddenly jumped around, guess what if I want to play stupid reaction games I start Mario, not surf to the NYT.) and I have to click the back button and have a few seconds to curse all web designers while I wait for the same slow ad network to deliver the same ad. It is the same with analytics, JS to have 'nice' scrolling for galleries, and css. Analytics at best does not get into my way, when I notice it, then because it slows my experience to a crawl (another nice opportunity to reflect on the depravity of web designers). JS for galleries or blinking effects or 'improved' nagigation has the same characteristic, either I don't notice or it annoys me. (Nice thing about NoScript, it breaks nag walls by accident. So I get all the advantages of an ad blocker, without having to feel guilty for trying to break the revenue model of websites.) CSS, well the defaults of the browsers are pretty good, and in general browsers are very good at displaying easily readable text. So at best CSS looks slightly better than the original, however I just had to switch off Gnome dark mode because some sites only define the foreground of a text input field not the background, which ends as black text on a dark gray background. ^1 Don't get me wrong, I understand how that happens. I am currently working on my new blog and wanted an entirely static site, without JS. I almost managed to get there, but I do not have a good static replacement for MathJax, so now I am wondering if I should deliver MathJax myself ( and a site jumps from a few kB to more than a MB) or if I should use the hosting by MathJax, with all the downsides above.