Diana the Valkyrie's Guide to the Internet
A hard man is good to beat
If you do, then fine. If you feel that you have a duty to read the adverts because the some sites are funded by advertising, then fine. If you don't, then there's software that aims to block out those annoying banner adverts. You might also want to block those annoying windows that pop up (called "consoles") on some sites.
As well as being spared the sight of banners which are sometimes ugly, there's a major benefit. If you don't download so much, your surfing is faster. If you access a page which is 50% advertising (in bytes downloaded), then eliminating the adverts makes the download twice as fast!
And you can read a survey of such software.
Because freedom of speech is accompanied by freedom to ignore.