All this attitude does is tear down the only viable income source for independent publishers and demonizes them for trying to make money, while everyone let's huge corporations off the hook for it because "well that's just what they do"

Advertising in the way it’s done is demonic in and of itself. I don’t care - find a better business model.

Independent publishers can't afford to run an ad network.

You aren't independent. You work for the BigTech company that serves ads on your site.