You conveniently ignored the most important part: > There's a ton of shit on the internet these days funded via advertisements, and I won't mind if most of it

You conveniently ignored the most important part: > There's a ton of shit on the internet these days funded via advertisements, and I won't mind if most of it dies. Advertisement funds listicles and clickbait in a vicious cycle. That is the kind of content that can only exist because of Internet advertising. That is the kind of content you "pay" for with your attention-span. Investigative journalism is being actively replaced by clickbait, listicles and bullshit because Internet advertisements are so much more profitable. Because you don't need to be good any more, you just need to hack weak minds on scale. THAT is the kind of Internet you're arguing I should support by not blocking advertising. Actual quality content has so many ways of monetizing itself (online and offline) it's disingenuous to ignore. Just not this one. Real life dead tree newspapers also take a dive in quality when they go down the hole of cheap shitty advertising. It will always lose against the low quality fire hose swamp of shit content because it's just as profitable (often more) and so much cheaper to produce. That is why people have been blocking Internet ads since forever. The ad-companies themselves are often shady, parasites come automatically with the territory. I'm blocking ads until that shit goes out of business. Not because "fuck everyone else" but because "fuck everyone that supports it".