I do not have "block ads". I simply do not request them. Users do not intentionally make requests for ads or pixels from tracking servers. Browsers do. Auto

I do not have "block ads". I simply do not request them. Users do not intentionally make requests for ads or pixels from tracking servers. Browsers do. Automatically. People writing web pages that aim to cash in on advertising budgets depend on this "feature". However it is optional. I read hundreds of web pages and never see any ads. Because for eading the news I do not use a so-called "modern" browser. It seems the entire web ad industry requires browsers to operate a certain way. If browsers do not follow these assumptions, then the user sees no ads. Despite strange notions like the one in the top-voted comment in this thread, there is nothing that requires any user to use browsers written by people whose salaries are paid directly or indirectly from ad sales revenue. Assuming certain companies were as all-powerful as the commenter suggests, then why not require users to access pages using software written by companies who profit from such web traffic? And make the software proprietary? Surely no one would complain. Thank you sir, may I have another? Let us not forget some of these "multi-billion dollar entities" are just websites. If the traffic dies down, the business of selling ads is no longer feasible. And the company disappears along with the website. It has happened before. 98% of revenue from web traffic/ad sales. Castles made of sand.