Comment It's why Adblocking is Necessary (Score 1) 174
Back when I was reading the Internet on a 14.4-kbps modem, the bandwidth used by ad banners was annoying, but you could block some of them with a hosts file, and the others weren't really that annoying unless they were using blink tags or animated GIFs. (Popups were annoying enough that most people blocked them pretty quickly.)
But sorry, if my browser is going to run random Javascript or Flash, it means my browser is going to run slowly and unreliably, and there's a risk of malicious content, and it's not safe to allow that kind of stuff.