> Why do you think being afraid of malware is BS?

I never said that. I said it's a BS excuse. I think it's perfectly fine to be afraid of malware. But you can run a couple of plugins (like noscript, and uninstall java) and solve that problem without even installing an adblocker. Which means you can have ads without the malware if you actually wanted to make the effort to do so.

So yes, it's an excuse since there are plenty of solutions which exist, some only requiring the download of a single plugin.