[jrockway]

To be fair, it's kind of like leaving your door open and sticking a sign on the side of your house saying "TV inside", and then complaining when someone steals your TV. Sure, they shouldn't have done it, but you would have never even thought about the problem if you just locked your door.

Locking your door on the Internet includes using AdBlock (with easylist and easyfilter), NoScript, Privoxy, Tor, and so on. (I skip Tor, but the other ones are quite non-invasive. Sometimes I accidentally browse the Internet without Adblock, and feel very confused as to why every site is all of a sudden so ugly.)