Imagine I only visit websites like the New York Times.
If an evildoer with a browser 0-day wants to target me, without an ad blocker any of a thousand companies can pay a few cents to have their javascript served to me. If I run an adblocker, there are a lot fewer ways to get their code in front of me.
A statistical argument, in other words - that being exposed to code from 10 vendors is safer than being exposed to code from 1000 vendors.
If an evildoer with a browser 0-day wants to target me, without an ad blocker any of a thousand companies can pay a few cents to have their javascript served to me. If I run an adblocker, there are a lot fewer ways to get their code in front of me.
A statistical argument, in other words - that being exposed to code from 10 vendors is safer than being exposed to code from 1000 vendors.