If we could go back to self-hosted ads without scripts, cookies and other forms of user tracking, without autoplaying videos and whole-page overlays, I'd be much more willing to turn off my adblocker.
I would totally turn off my ad blocker if ads to restricted to a set maximum size, constituted only a static JPG and contained no tracking pixels/code or cookies and we no more targeted than the site they were on: I.e. technology ads on tech sites (SO, Ars Technica, etc), ads for games on gaming sites. Basically, the ad model back in the day.
I would absolutely turn my adblocker off as well if that were the model. My problem isn't advertising, it is false, malicious, bloaty surveillanceware that most advertising is today.
You wouldn't even need to - ads like that are practically indistinguishable from locally-hosted images, I'd reckon most adblockers don't block them anyways!
