No offense, but to some of us whole promise of internet is to empower users.

I would be perfectly willing to let all the sites that can't survive without ads die.

Internet would be smaller but still enormously powerful tool.

And most of the problem people complain about web and internet today (fake news, social bubbles, , ...) came out of ad tech and its desire to optimize for engagement and tracking.

We cant put genie back into the bottle but I can use ad blockers to at least mitigate some small amount of damage.