Once, years ago, I did not see a bug on the site of the company I worked for, because the ad blocker I was using with my browser masked the bug. Further, I reasoned that since we made part of our money from ads, I should not use an ad blocker and I stopped. Plus I thought I should see the web &quot;as it really is&quot;.<p>Now I think those are really dumb ideas, plus I don&#x27;t work for a company that makes money from ads. It&#x27;s basically an arms race now, websites do insane things because their stupid fucking A&#x2F;B tests ticked up .001 percent. Then the rest of them throw up modals (and whatever other garbage) because everyone else is doing it.<p>The real, actual web, as it really is, it&#x27;s a disaster now. Sometimes I open a web page and forget about it, then minutes later it just begins blaring audio for some video ad that I can&#x27;t even see because it&#x27;s been scrolled offscreen. Toilet world.