Remember when Google introduced text-only ads to replace flashing animated banners and pop-up ads popular at the time? I didn’t mind those and I didn’t need an adblocker.
Nowadays YouTube is the primary reason I have to use an adblocker. It is literally unusable with all the ads.
What was great about those days was that often, the ads were actually relevant to the page I was on and led me to more quality content.
I ran an adsense site, and I got great results hosting and running ads.
Now ads are fire-hose shit that has zero relevance to me, my life, or what I’m searching.