Don’t feel bad for blocking their ads. The internet was never meant to have that much advertising in the first place. If websites can’t afford to keep their site up then they probably don’t need to be running it in the first place.
If your site has to host spammy bloated malicious third party advertising then I think there’s a bigger issue at stake. Users shouldn’t have to sacrifice their privacy and security to view content. Also greed isn’t the same as “we need ads to keep our site running” when clearly they are making enough but want more.
It’s honestly insane how tech illiterate people can’t grasp this privacy concept and just learn to use a damn ad blocker. I don’t mind justification but at some point you have to be the bad guy and fight back against cooperate greed.
Stay strong. Firefox+uBlock origin is the goat!
I sent the FTC a letter asking them to look into the practices of bootloader locking. They did they they would consider looking into it