Why not?

Benefit: Removing ads isn't much of a benefit for me, since having tracking protection and first party isolation.

Cost: Ads blocker require high privilege permissions that I choose not to grant.

Why not? I'm genuinely curious... The web feels completely different without ad blockers, at least to me.

> Ads blocker require high privilege permissions that I choose not to grant.

That is perfectly understandable. I agree with you. I think these blockers should be built into the browser themselves in order to eliminate this problem. Sadly, conflicts of interest prevent that. Firefox is funded by Google.

To clarify, I prefer an ad-free browsing experience.

However, I haven't seen an alternative to ads that works for adequately funding content on the /open/ web.

I like that most journalism, YouTube, and social media are free for all.