What (A.K.A. Curmudgeon-Bro) is trying to say is that add-blockers and/or browsers such as Brave which block them automatically are an essential and time honored way to view the web. He's confused as to how you operated on the net for the past two decade without using them.
ublockorigin and noscript are popular; the latter is a bit higher learning curve.
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