Online advertising nowadays is extremely obnoxious and annoying, and serves to track you, too. Add the fact that ads are free real estate for malicious actors to do whatever, and I think you can agree that they are a bigger problem than they should be.

I genuinely wouldn't mind ads if they were unobtrusive and not tracking me, but that's not the reality.

[–] ruination@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Don't forget about malvertising, that's probably a more imminent danger. If Google and other ad companies don't give enough of a shit about user to actually filter out malware ads, why should I give enough of a shit about their revenue to not use uBO?