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I disagree slightly. Ad blockers do block non-intrusive advertisements too, for example Ethical Ads, or sponsorblock on YouTube. To me it's less about intrusiveness/privacy and more about "I control what I see".

And in-text ads can already be removed by summarisation tools (even from before the AI era!) or by apps like Boring Report.




Just to be clear, sponsorblock has less than 3% the number of users of Ublock origin alone, so while an interesting utility and a interesting subject for the ad-blocking debate ethics-wise it has nowhere near enough prevalence to be significant when talking about ad-blockers used by the masses. And "the boring report" it's not even optimized for mobile viewing (Android), at least in my experience a few minutes ago: https://i.imgur.com/q6e3DzM.jpg




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