If a TV show were five minutes of content, and 55 minutes of advertising, I would stop watching it. And yet, that's the approximate breakdown for many websites between content and advertising. And they wonder why readers complain.
A significant problem is that content costs a certain amount of money to be produced, and web content is unable to command those prices.
Ad fraud is a big part of it, and some of the companies in the best position to solve it (like Google) are benefitting so handsomely from ad fraud that I can't imagine them stopping it.
Ad blockers will hurt legitimate content producers, but because people defrauding advertisers don't use ad blockers, they'll continue to make money.
Wow. Well, I'm glad you have your feet anchored down here in reality and aren't exaggerating at all.
This is perhaps the most ridiculous comment I have read this afternoon.