> If a website is abusive and does shitty things, just don't use the website. What do you do if the aforementioned is not done by the website as such, but by s

> If a website is abusive and does shitty things, just don't use the website. What do you do if the aforementioned is not done by the website as such, but by some omnipresent, and hard to avoid 3rd party ad net? > After some point, it's no longer the browsers job to babysit the web. I completely agreed with autoplaying audio, but blocking video is just not worth it. Video is by far the heaviest piece of media out there. There is no practical means to reduce its loading time, especially on mobile. It simply cannot be considered an ordinary piece of page content. Lastly, people are sick and tired of video ads, and, particularly, obscene, bombastic, and blinking like no tomorrow ones.