Fair enough, but speak for yourself.  If ads were tiny, insignificant things that didn&#x27;t chew up CPU and RAM resources (like with Javascript), didn&#x27;t massively bloat the total size of a web page and use up my bandwidth, and didn&#x27;t try to invade my privacy with tracking, then I simply wouldn&#x27;t bother blocking them.  If they were small, unobtrusive text-based ads like Google use to be really good at, then why would I care?  Maybe you just can&#x27;t stand advertising, but I don&#x27;t think most people care as much as you do.<p>I adblock precisely because of privacy, security, and speed.<p>And without ads of any kind, it probably would be a capitalist apocalypse.  How would Apple sell the iPhone or Samsung sell the Galaxy phones without advertising?  Word of mouth?  That&#x27;s a pretty slow way to get the word out.  Relying on the press?  That might work for really big players (and how is that different from advertising anyway?), but it won&#x27;t work for smaller firms selling more niche products.  What if you&#x27;re shopping on Amazon and you buy product X, but product Y would go really well with it?  Right now, Amazon will frequently show you &quot;other customers who bought this product also bought product Y&quot;.  But without advertising, you wouldn&#x27;t see that, so you&#x27;d be stuck only buying the exact thing you&#x27;re looking for, and never getting any suggestions.  I actually like getting those suggestions; I do buy things like that from time to time, things I wouldn&#x27;t have thought of otherwise.