I'm not defending the ad industry, the worst players have ruined it for everyone. It is 100% a safety hazard to surf the web without ad and javascript blocking

I'm not defending the ad industry, the worst players have ruined it for everyone. It is 100% a safety hazard to surf the web without ad and javascript blocking. I absolutely support users having the choice of what programs to render on their devices, and being allowed to control what javascript executes when a page loads. If it breaks the site while your mucking with its local execution, thats on the user (although ideally all sites should have accessibility compatibility, and work as just plain text. 1st party ads would still work fine.) And although I find them annoying, paywalls and ad blocking detection are choices that publishers can choose to make.