> Loading ads of screen doesn't bother me.

congratulations!

    - you now have 70 new tracking cookies
    - a degraded battery
    - have exceeded your bandwidth allotment
    - probably some malware payload that exfiltrated your contacts via a 0-day XSS
    - almost certainly slower UI/scrolling performance

> Also, I'm not sure where the irony is here.

the irony of degrading people's experience [via popups, countdowns, etc] who refuse to load slow and annoying ads.