Web advertising is, and long has been, far worse and more intrusive than TV ads.

i was referring to the "golden age" of captive eyeballs ie eveyone watched lots of TV and mostly could not avoid seeing most of the ads.

at least we've had ad blockser on browsers that work well up to now

the tracking of web ads obviously vastly overshadows what happened with TV.

they obviously want the best of both worlds "avoidable ads" and "extreme tracking"

The problem is that the links to these sites already grab my attention. If ads can't be blocked on a web site, links to the web site should be blocked, so I never see them in the first place.

I’ve installed an addon to filter duckduckgo and google searches to avoid hide the SEO spammy websites. Maybe you would be interested.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hohser/?src=s...

Same, I've been avoiding domains that I know will just show me an unacceptable banner (on mobile) or paywall (desktop). It's funny that I've trained myself to avoid them. I wouldn't really mind them being blocked in these lists, as long as I can optionally disable/enable the domains, or whitelist them if I want (there are some news websites I've paid for)