On: THIS is why tools like adblock exist.

Actually, it's why Readability (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/) and Instapaper Text (http://www.instapaper.com/extras) bookmarklets exist. They blocks all the ads and non-essential content, ensures columns are wide enough, and standardizes the fonts.

They also work great for all those Typepad blogs with odd columns and tiny fonts.

Not sure why the down vote. I interpreted the submitter's image to imply a benefit of Adblock being a shorter page and cleaner layout, which is a problem that is better solved by both Readability and Instapaper.

Don't you have to actually click the bookmarklet for these to work? That sounds like an annoyance to do on every page view for each site you go to.