This is one of many reasons why ad blocking isn't just cosmetic: it's a best practice for security too!

So much this.

I recently saved a friend from getting scammed when she wanted to buy an audiobook, we wanted to avoid Audible because of the DRM and limited device selection.

The first few results she got were some shady services offering really good deals. I looked them up on trustpilot and they weren't outright scams, but they aggressively pushed you into getting an expensive monthly subscription that was basically impossible to cancel.

Yeah the first will be the scammers with a highly targeted ad buy, and who can even tell the difference between ads and search results these days?

All of my search results are search results, because of ad blockers.

Now, many of my search results suck due to SEO and whatnot, but that’s a different story.