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Paradoxically, ads could be really lightweight and that would be incredibly beneficial for the advertisers because they'd load faster and more people would see them and they would cause less people to seek adblockers. But in my experience they're usually the shittiest performing part of any website that hosts them, to their own detriment. So sad how many web devs don't give a shit about performance.
Hear hear. For years I used AdBlock Plus deliberately because I liked its acceptable ads policy, that let through unobtrusive ads. Then Google got greedy, and started trying to defeat adblockers on YouTube. And ABP couldn't get around that as quickly as uBlock Origin. So I switched. And now instead of letting through unobtrusive ads, I block everything.