That one annoyed me as well, but for a different reason. The open web doesn't require funding, the commercial web does. Advertising on the net doesn't bother m

That one annoyed me as well, but for a different reason. The open web doesn't require funding, the commercial web does. Advertising on the net doesn't bother me as much as it once did, but I also see less of it. I don't really visit news sites, mostly the ones already funded by my tax money or the subscription I pay for. The best blogs rarely have ads. 20 years ago any random blog would have ads, not so any more. Search engines, at least DDG have a reasonable ad policy, even though I have reported a large number of questionable ads. Google is a little useless, because actual result drown in ads for some searches. I think contextual ads should be preferred over those based on a users past behaviour online. It's really only news sites and social media that needs the ads based on tracking users.