But those are ok. They (usually) don't have sound, auto playing videos, shock content or cover something I want to look at.

Get a bicycle and learn the car free routes into town and to your work. Nobody puts up adverts on cycle paths. It isn't against the law, it just makes no commercial sense to do so.

By making the bicycle however you get about, you cut down on seeing ads.

> Ads in public places, bus stops, etc. are kinda hard to avoid unfortunately.

These are very different - and largely interesting to me in their colorfulness and often whimsy. (The cities around here are otherwise NOT visually interesting).

This is something that web sites have always had at their disposal: use static locally-hosted images as ads and respect my screen real-estate, don't try to track me with 20-200 trackers, and I WILL allow them (and do). I will even allow some animation if it respects my bandwidth.

But no, very few web sites feel satisfied with this so multiple ad blockers they get. A few sites do small static image ads. I don't block these and even frequently follow their links.

Barber shops and doctors' waiting rooms are hellish for me, since I can't not-hear the radio/TV they usually have playing.

Hey Vinni

Ditto

I dont see any ads online.

I dont have a TV either, I stopped watching that ad infested garbage in 2005.

too old to walk to the bus stop, too much of an introvert to hang out near pulblic places with other people

You do also get used to it. Banner blindness is absolutely a thing (and something that still trips me up where I miss the most important information on a page, despite using adblock most of the time)

Try uBlock Origin. You'll notice the difference immediately.

Last night my wife clicked on an article in her news feed. It wasn't this article, but it was this site.

https://3dvf.com/le-realisateur-philippe-vidal-dumas-nous-qu...

Never mind the dozens of pop-up ads and banners on the site. Random words in the article turn into ads that popup while you're scrolling. And it's easy to accidentally click one because there's more pixels covered by ads than not.

I've been telling her to get an adblocker for years because she, like you, feels like she doesn't need one. But that article last night made her rethink her stance on ads.

For me, I don't mind advertisements. I scroll Instagram a few times a week and there are ads there. I get more ads than actual posts. They're easy enough to ignore. And honestly, sometimes they're interesting.

It's when the ads disrupt my browsing session that pisses me off. If sites didn't have shitty ads that cover your screen and just get in the way, I wouldn't have an adblocker.

I also use adblocker to get rid of shitty non-ad pop-ups, like "you have to install our shitty mobile app to use this site!" Yeah, fuck that. Ublock origin zaps it away.

Even worse, being at a restaurant where they're playing commercial FM radio or a music stream with ads. I won't go back.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flick%20the%...

Interesting choice of phrase

Equally life-changing would be to keep the ads blocked, and visit the “Buy it for life” subreddit, which has recommendations for the best products and services that will last you a lifetime.

If you really needed those things, you would have thought of getting them on your own time. Being tempted into it is consumerism and kinda why we're in this mess

Are you sure you needed them? What was stopping you from doing the research without a third party shoving whatever they will make money on?

Dropship instagram ad products are famously high quality and not a scam!