If the revenue generating nonsense (ads, tracking, etc) weren't on the web they would creep in where every they could. At least on the web we can fairly easily

If the revenue generating nonsense (ads, tracking, etc) weren't on the web they would creep in where every they could. At least on the web we can fairly easily block the majority of ads. I liked simple text pages of the past but I also appreciate that lots and lots of applications that would only ever see a windows release (and maybe a buggy mac release) will run on whatever platform I want as long as I have a modern browser. I hear ya though that it's frustrating when you go to a site that is pretty much only text and it just flatout doesn't work without javascript, or they have done something weird with the css and it doesn't reflow properly on a small screen/mobile browser.