It's hip to say ads make things worse, but reality is often much more nuanced.
My original point being, many times an external person may think something is intentional when it may very well be a bug or may be there for a good reason.
I have observed a few of those both as an external person or an internal person.
But with fewer ads influencing their spending, readers might have more disposible income left over to fund content.
If the ads were useless, advertisers would not pay for them to exist.
>without better ad blocks in mv3
MV3 adblockers were built before MV2 was deprecated.
Useless to users, not to advertisers. And, many people like me have never purchased any products after seeing ads at least on internet.