I would love for someone more knowledgeable in this space than I to chime in on the economics of this industry

Are the few cents you get from antagonizing users really worth it?

I suspect the answer is simple and that most users don’t give a shit

I think it has to do a lot with when you came of age - I’m in my late 30s, I got my first tech job at 14 as a sys admin for a large school district, and every single developer, admin, etc that I knew was already going on about the free internet. As a result, I’ve never had a tolerance for anything but the most reasonable advertisements

I think that ideology is necessary to care enough and be motivated enough to really get rid of ads, how fucking awful the websites are alone should be enough but for most people it isn’t