> If you "simply blocked all ads" the people making the pages wouldn't have the income which they maintain the pages with. One upon a time, adverts were just c

> If you "simply blocked all ads" the people making the pages wouldn't have the income which they maintain the pages with. One upon a time, adverts were just cross-linked GIF images. No iframes, no Flash, no javascript, no cookies, just images. Easy for rendering engines to show, no need to call script interpreters or to add boatloads of rubbish into the DOM. No real performance hit beyond downloading the image initially. I would quite happily return to that world.