[gmw]

In my rural location the Internet service was once very very slow (64k ISDN, which was still better than dial-up), and then for a few years only very slow (weak signal 3G) and is now only intermittently very slow (weak signal 4G). This has affected my tolerance of Internet ads, targeted or otherwise. I simply don't have the reliable bandwidth to spend on crap. Mostly I block it at the network firewall, but I also use various forms of filtering in the browser - these days using the feature provided as part of Vivaldi (which I find quite convenient ... just sayin').