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Ads in the 'good old days' were generic ads, not anti-privacy, tracking hungry like now.

I don't mind the former but I'm active against the latter.

Not to mention the bad actors that use ad networks to drop malware, and the ad networks that don't give a shit because all money is green.

I used to spend hours getting rid of ads in the old days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxomitron

I can't: ads are simply unethical. If you depend on ads, find a better business model.

> The internet was much better when it was ad driven than paywall driven like it is now.

No. It was the same crap. We disabled javascript in old browsers and the internet worked as intended. Nowadays the browser is written in javascript. :(