If advertising was reasonable, I would agree with you. A static image in a 90s-style top banner or sidebar is not too awful.
But advertisers don't stop there. Distracting animations, flyovers which block the page content, tiny impossible buttons to close such flyovers, malicious crap which tries to trick you by looking like an OS window, downloaded apps which full your OS with junk, auto-play audio and videos, cross-site tracking of your personal life and building a "profile" on you to target ads which appeal to your innermost desires or problems or vulnerabilities.
Give an inch and advertisers take 100 miles and then take some more.
Fuck ads and fuck companies whose business model is based on advertising. I'd rather they just vanished off the internet.
But advertisers don't stop there. Distracting animations, flyovers which block the page content, tiny impossible buttons to close such flyovers, malicious crap which tries to trick you by looking like an OS window, downloaded apps which full your OS with junk, auto-play audio and videos, cross-site tracking of your personal life and building a "profile" on you to target ads which appeal to your innermost desires or problems or vulnerabilities.
Give an inch and advertisers take 100 miles and then take some more.
Fuck ads and fuck companies whose business model is based on advertising. I'd rather they just vanished off the internet.