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When the world is either ad-supported or locked behind a paywall or, worse, both, this is what will happen.
Adds would be fine if they were unobtrusive, sidebar adds or hell those little bars that scroll across the bottom 10th of the screen like a news headline I'd be fine with those things. Its when the adds actually obstruct my ability to enjoy the product that I take issue.
Ads that permit code to run locally are a security hazard. That's most ad platforms.
I'd deal with intrusive ads just fine (and when I was younger I used to), but I run an adblocker and noscript for security reasons. Unobtrusive ads don't change that for me.