[einpoklum]

Commercial companies being able to force themselves onto our consciousness is unacceptable.

Personally, seeing ads in public spaces feels just like in totalitarian countries you would see large portraits of the supreme leader or government propaganda. Somehow this is legitimized because they're private corporations. Not in my book.

More power to ad blocker authors, and a particular shoutout to:

* Raymond Hill of uBlock Origin fame: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/

* The EFF, for blocking trackers and other 3rd party nasties with Privacy Badger: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger