Even if I accept the equivalency ( I don't ), this particular plea is just a little short of the now oft-derided 'you wouldn't download a car'.

I can understand the argument, but I do not accept 2 million trackers, autoplayers and host of other horrible behaviors modern web has become. Ads just happened to join the list, because they were not that much better; and sometimes were the embodiment of everything wrong with web. From my perspective, you brought it on yourself.

I have zero tears to shed.