[bambax]

> You’re going to see ads whether you like it or not.

That is not true. Avoiding all ads on the web today is not only easy, but free.

It seems quite unlikely the people who can't be bothered to install uBlock Origin or use Brave, will suddenly decide to browse the web by means of ChatGPT, or ask it to rewrite web pages to get rid of marketing fluff before they access them.

[vcg3rd]

I couldn't believe I had yo scroll almost to the bottom to find what I thought would probably be the 1st or 2nd comment. I was just about to give up and write it myself.

Between pihole, extensions and userscripts I never see ads. Ads wouldn't bother me in the least and I wouldn't block them if they were static like in a newspaper. It's the tracking I won't tolerate.

[autoexec]

If you spend any approachable amount of time on the internet I'm confident that you're seeing ads all the time. You may not always recognize them when they're not animated banners asking you to punch a monkey, but astroturfing, sockpupets, shills, influencers, and ads disguised as content are everywhere.

[ruszki]

That’s not true at all. Articles themselves are ads in many-many cases. For example just include “best” in any search, and you won’t see non-ad articles at all (except Reddit on some level). Even many recipes contain ads, and I’m not talking about the bullshit around the real recipes, but themselves.

[nunez]

this is going to stop working eventually

[bambax]

That's possible (although, I think, unlikely); but at the present time not seeing ads is not just possible but as I said, easy and free.