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This includes plenty of “good” sites. I kept forwarding Worldometers’ COVID-19 data site [1] to friends and families, then later realized it’s full of banner a

• mcintyre1994 6y ago
  Without content blockers on iOS it has some garbage google ad or something advertising 5 cures for arthritis and something called nutreance. I wonder how many people get a fake Covid cure advertised there since that seems to be the level of advertiser.
• ccmcarey 6y ago
  Oh wow, I also forward that site around, and sometimes comment on the great minimal design and information density. Just had a look at it with uBlock Origin disabled, and wow, how do people browse the internet like this?
  • m0xte 6y ago
    Indeed. I showed my 80 year old mother uBlock Origin and she actually said it made her remaining time more useful. That really put it into perspective.
  • dillutedfixer 6y ago
    It really is jarring when you see your regularly visited websites without ad blocking. A news site that I look at has infinite scrolling ads of those "Dentists everywhere are furious about this trick" with a picture of an avocado boiling in water or something equally ridiculous. I realize that ad blocking does take money away from site operators, and I do pay for many of the news sites that I frequent. But honestly a site that is willing to blast me with ads about how I can cheat my insurance company with ONE SIMPLE TRICK doesn't deserve money from my clicks. And I do get that they often can't choose what ads are shown. Perhaps that's the bigger issue. Edit: elaborated on my final point.