[imustbeevil]

I totally agree, and there are already multiple options on both desktop and mobile for different adblockers.

As to the search quality decrease, that's definitely more of a reason to desire an alternative than seeing ads is.

[chickenthirty]

Yeah, I think the search quality problem is often brought up here on HN because we're mostly engineers here, but article writers seem to always talk about the visible ads problem since it's easier to explain to non-technical users.