Without some way of limiting ads, the Web has become a hellscape. I've noticed that many sites that are slow to load, sometimes taking minutes, are tied up with fetching advertising content from half a dozen third-party servers. I don't have a Pi-hole (yet), but I've been running Adblock Plus on my browsers for years and only disable it for certain well-behaved sites that I want to support with ad revenue. If a site blocks access to a specific page that I want to read, I'll disable the ad blocker only for that specific page, or if they're obnoxious about it, I'll turn off JavaScript support for that page and reload it: That way, the ad blocker doesn't work at all, but I can usually read the text and the page can't display their obnoxious ads or video content either. To avoid this issue with running Adblock Plus, I plan to eventually install a Pi-hole in my network.