Personally, it's not primarily about the actual ads, but all the tracking and JavaScript and shady UI patterns. Somebody trying to tell me I should keep all ad

Personally, it's not primarily about the actual ads, but all the tracking and JavaScript and shady UI patterns. Somebody trying to tell me I should keep all ads on because ads pay for the content? Fuck that, tracking my every move pays for the content, and I want no part of that, even if I lose access to the content. The ad industry wired the consumers to expect things for free to begin with, so I don't know why I should feel any guilt at all for trying to block ads and gigabytes worth of unnecessary and often down right malicious JavaScript code.