Brave - built in Shields... but nobody would need AdBlockers if sites were reasonable.. but they never will be as its a battle for all eternity now of Blockers vs Ads
Yarp.
Every time I have to use incognito mode to view a site that blocks ad blockers I'm reminded of exactly why I use them, I was looking at an American news site yesterday and it had something like 10 animated adverts and at least one streamed advert. I've noticed that one or two "incognito" tabs in Chrome can rapidly use more memory than the 50 normal tabs because of the adverts etc.
The thing is, I have no real issue with static adverts as long as they don't take up huge amounts of screen space or keep expanding/contracting as you go down the page.
I understand sites need advertising to make money to keep going.
What I have always objected to is the way that many (most?) ad brokers are scum who quite happily allow anything through with no checks, and most sites either go with the scummy ad brokers, or if they go direct with the companies who place the adverts seem to go with adverts with video/sound which use up bandwidth and are incredibly distracting/annoying.
At least since flash got taken around the back of the shed and introduced to Mr Shotty i'm not dealing with advert transmitted malware every couple of weeks. My nephew used to play warcraft and it seemed all the warcraft related sites were utter cess pits for flash transmitted malware.