[kevin_thibedeau]

Ads themselves aren't the core problem. It's the 10's of megabytes of superfluous javascript you're expected to download to read content with primarily text presentation. Put the marketing departments on the ark ship along with the telephone sanitizers and we'll all be better off.

[samizdis]

> Put the marketing departments on the ark ship along with the telephone sanitizers and we'll all be better off.

... but we'll still have nice-looking hair :)

[hammyhavoc]

You don't just hit the 'reader' button/mode in your browser?

[kevin_thibedeau]

I block most javascript by default for a nicer 90's style web experience but there are times when I'm using a browser without addons or reader mode available. This is far faster than the supposed streamlining that AMP was claimed to provide. The most hostile web sites I encounter are the AMP pages on the Google assistant news feed.

[h3mb3]

But a lot of that JS is for ads and tracking/analytics, the latter of which also ties into ads and marketing.