No. Not only do I run "Ghostery" and "AdBlock" in my browser, I also run DNSMasq as a DNS aggregator. I then use dnsmasq.conf to alias a lot of ad sites to 127.0.0.1.
Advertising is so close to lying, that I feel very comfortable in doing this.
Advertising is so close to lying, that I feel very comfortable in doing this.
Seeing advertising as a lie is a black and white (true/false, all/nothing) view of things. Viewing the world under this lens will make you most often frustrated and bitter. The world if not black or white, it's full of colors.
If I couldn't block the ads for some legal reason, I'd try to come up with a way to fake-click on ads, so as to spread disinformation about myself. The advertisers are almost certainly lying to me, so I'm going to lie to them.