I understand that without money things are more difficult to do. Here in the US the advertisers have taken serious advantage of people. If there is a pet peeve of mine, it's ads. I'm probably the exception to the rule that most people don't mind ads.
For one I practice a reverse thing with ads. If they manage to make it in, when I go to the store, if I spot a product that has displayed for me since the last time I was in the store, I will buy any thing but that product.
Ads were partially responcible for me eliminating tv. It wasn't solely because of that reason but it had a heavy influance on it. I was paying for PPV tv and getting ads on my dime.
Another reason I block ads is security. I've had quite a few times over the years where I didn't get malware that others did and a few times where I had to clean my network because of malvertising. Advertisers do not check 3
rd party advertisers for clean contents. You never hear, "I'll send some one right over to fix it" nor "Here's some software to take care of that". If the fix and the hours it takes to get it out of the system is on me, so is the cure.
Now that I am facing caps, ads have become even more of a problem.
Between 40% to 79% of bandwidth traffic is taken by ads and data collection on cell phones and wired connections. It's a large combination of factors over many years that have really turned me against ads. Today there are digital billboards that attempt to identify you by your cell phone as you drive, in order to custom tailor ads to you. That's a whole bit too much. The ad industry has become a pest industry.
I'm sorry folks, I know you set great store by reaching people and that ads is a way to do that to secure both viewership as well as income. This is one we will disagree on as to the importance of ads. It is not your fault the world is as it is but when it comes to this topic, I'm pretty set in my ways.