To answer your question, I'm a little extreme in this regard, but I view ads as malware for the human brain. They hijack my limited attention span to make me d

To answer your question, I'm a little extreme in this regard, but I view ads as malware for the human brain. They hijack my limited attention span to make me desire products that I would have a happier life if I never knew existed and that I don't have to spend my limited willpower resisting. It's been an extraordinarily rare event in my life that I see an ad for a product that makes my life better. If I want something, I will proactively research it, or if something is popular enough, my friends will tell me about it. I view ads in their totality as bad for my mental health, and there's no level of advertising which is acceptable to me. All these issues concerning security, privacy, CPU/network usage are important, but they miss the mark for me.