A few years ago I had to use my mom's laptop to order dinner or something, and I couldn't figure out why the page I was on looked so weird. I double checked ano

A few years ago I had to use my mom's laptop to order dinner or something, and I couldn't figure out why the page I was on looked so weird. I double checked another site I visit regularly, and that site looked weird, too: huge background images, videos everywhere, weird fonts, etc., etc. At first I thought her machine had a virus, then it dawned on me it was all ads! I installed an ad blocker, and the difference was night and day! The unfiltered pages were basically unreadable.