I installed an ad blocker, less than three months ago, on my phone.

Experience has been great, but then I decided to check how many hosts it has blocked.

More than 100,000 queries blocked. All ads.

Seriously, what the hell? Why so many ads on the internet?

Because we don't want to pay to access pages.

Money

Also, what ad blocker?

100k in 3 months? That's not even that much, it's ~100 queries blocked/day.
Although I guess it's only blocking queries from your phone's browser, and not system-wide stuff, so it makes sense to only see smaller numbers.
If you're ever up for a bit of tinkering, try setting up a pi-hole and get ready to see some much bigger numbers!

I have been testing AdGuard for 2 months and here is my status.

@endor 100*90 is 100k? you math is off...

@magicMirror welp, don't do math at 2am kids

Its not even that I mind adverts, I just don't want them tracking me.

And as a side note, the algorithm is often wrong about my interests, anyway, since I find myself clicking more adverts when I can turn personalisation off purely because I get served more relevant adverts when they aren't trying to predict what I like.

@niush wait, ads consume *this much* data? Holy crap...

One day we will see ads in our dreams as well.