[apeace]

It's worth mentioning that ads can also be delivered without tracking and oodles of Javascript. Sell ad placements that are images, even GIFs.

[Steltek]

People were blocking ads long before those were reasons.

[TheSmiddy]

The first ad blockers existed for popups and because ad networks were being used as a malware injection point.

Only extremists had an issue with the standard JPG banner ad at the top of every page.

[jldl805]

TIL I'm an extremist.

[SLWW]

Welcome to the club.

Though those little rectangle GIFs were mint back in the day