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Agree. Honestly, websites just feel so much cleaner without ads. Like, ads are literal visual pollution and I hate it.
I'm pretty actively hostile to ads: I have an adblocker built into my router, I won't subscribe to any streaming thing that will show me ads (and I get a lot of shows and movies from... other ad-free sources), don't have cable etc. The only place I really see them is outside on billboards and stuff.
But anyway, I'm so used to not seeing ads now that going to family member's places over Christmas was kind of jarring with the amount of ads. What's wrong with your TV!
Ads are not just visual pollution, they're more importantly also mental pollution.
Right! They're trying to get a reaction out of you to then buy their crap.
Then add the ones that lead to malicious sites all over social media or steal your focus that you can no longer scroll that page. They're insidious and negative, they're all about manipulating your emotions to then go buy something.