system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How are internet ads still profitable, considering there're so many of them and no one pays attention to them?
gpt
You seriously overestimate the number of people who use tools like Ad Block.

It's a similar argument I've heard about internet censorship, such as the Chinese Great Fire Wall. Invariably some twenty-year-old will come along and proclaim that the censorship program is easily bypassed with a VPN or some other tool. Guess what? The government doesn't care, because the low barrier they've put in place works for 97% of the people.