> Wouldn't it be more ethical to not visit ad supported websites in the first place? There is a negative feedback loop where most third party content is only p

> Wouldn't it be more ethical to not visit ad supported websites in the first place? There is a negative feedback loop where most third party content is only published on the most popular sites, so it becomes impossible to entirely avoid these sites even if the companies behind them are cancer. > That would be ethically consistent. Don't drag ethics into a mud fight with billion dollar companies. I lived through ads that faked download buttons, faked virus alerts, provided links to fake "official" download sites with malware or directly tried to infect your computer. The only ethical thing you can do with the ad industry is rob those rotten sociopaths blind.