Part of blocking tracking is just outright blocking ads, so yes, I definitely get fewer ads. Also, I'm able to see more content. My spouse often finds they can't access some random article (or not all of it) but it works fine for me with my extreme blocking.

Doesn't this do nothing for the cause of legislating away personalized ads, though? Not wanting ads at all is different from being a consumer of non-personalized ads and buying stuff from them when it's still relevant so that companies can still survive without your personal data when it's regulated.

I don’t know the answer to your question, but I know that in 30+ years of browsing the web, I have literally never once intentionally clicked on an ad of any sort. (I have been tricked into clicking on a few, and done a few by accident, of course.) If I ever saw an ad that had something interesting in it, I would open a new window and enter the domain name by hand, anyway. But I’m weird that way.

I would bet that upwards of 90% of people on this thread outright block ads.

I certainly get several orders of magnitude fewer ads. I don't even get the spam texts and calls that so many people around me do.

And when I do see ads, they aren't personalized -- which is a great thing, in my view.

Which, in the second place, most ads fucking suck at "personalization" anyways.