There's some level of irony related to the first paragraph talking about annoying cookie banners, when theverge displays a full-screen cookie banner "We and our 848 partners store and access personal data".
How bout those huge ads littered all over Apple News… I bet those don’t thanos snap away.
Apple News premium- the most ad-filled PAID apple product
"You still load up the ads so the website owner gets an ad view, no harm done." - not quite, without other events like taking a user to advertisers page or linking sales to this particular ad, i think this website will have its ad revenue reduced.
This also doesn't punish the advertiser for externalizing ad costs by using your storage, bandwidth and CPU. Inadequate.
Maybe complementary to an ad blocker, but certainly not a replacement for one. It seems like an annoying amount of extra work for something that won't save state across refreshes.
having an inferior uBlock Origin implementation, because the real owner of the device blocked other browser engines in the device you paid $1000 for, is not cause for celebration.