Advertising is not that bad, if the advertisers would simply stick to static "dumb" ads (even text-only, as with the old Google ads), preferably locally hosted,

Advertising is not that bad, if the advertisers would simply stick to static "dumb" ads (even text-only, as with the old Google ads), preferably locally hosted, with no tracking nor privacy invasion. The problems started with animations, sound, interactive nonsense, popups, popunders, tracking, redirects, you name it. If an ad can do anything more than what a simple newspaper ad can do, it's too much. And personally, I would rather be without those, as well.