<i>Even the rare few who may give a shit due to stronger empathy or morality will usually justify it away in their heads &quot;Oh, I&#x27;m afraid of malware&quot; or some other BS excuse which works to trick themselves into feeling better about blocking every ad.</i><p>Blocking ad networks because of malware is not a BS excuse. The only 0-day I ever got hit by, to my knowledge, was straight off a major ad network on a well-known and generally reputable site linked from a popular news&#x2F;discussion site for geeks you may have heard of. If you&#x27;ve followed any links from HN today, it could have been you.<p>If someone is then unwilling to share their content with me because I block their ads, I understand and don&#x27;t pretend they owe me anything. But I don&#x27;t turn off my security tools, for anyone, ever, and I consider content blockers to be security tools.