> Probably the most effective thing is going to be an ad blocker. If for some reason I was unable to use an ad blocker then my web browsing would drop to such

> Probably the most effective thing is going to be an ad blocker. If for some reason I was unable to use an ad blocker then my web browsing would drop to such an extent that you could say I no longer used "the web" but rather a handful of sites. Similarly, if my only TV option was cable with commercials, I'd just stop watching TV altogether. I normally browse without JS, and JS-only sites are increasingly common. 95% of the time I just close the tab, even if I'm researching local businesses. From the other 5% of the time, requiring JS to read some text has become such a reliable predictor of regret that the choice (to just close the tab) is easy and immediate. On the flipside, people here often complain about not being able to view a site or that its format is unreadable, when it works great without JS, so it goes both ways. You only ever hear that blocking JS makes things fail, but not that it makes things work.