None of the suggestions in this post would put advertisements in your face. And you'd have the option to not see them unless they are directly in a user's post, placed there by them. There's nothing that you can do to stop that anyway.
The potential monetization is enormous and it's not about the quick money. It's about utility of the blockchain and its three tokens...and long-term sustainability through actual revenue generation and dividends to stakeholders.
Big Money Advertisers have a lot of strings attached and now that they are throwing their politics in people's faces by pulling their Big Money value out from platforms to devalue prices we become untrusting. It is the BIG $$$ that will have the voice not the creators. The outcome will always be the same > Killers of innovators > instigators and oddballs .
The community will always be suspicious when investors only spout big money to be the answer and forgetting the the genius of Steemers at finding better solutions. I see the writing on the wall already and who has the voice of value even before the marketers come to steem. It speaks volumes to an aware community who is sick and tired of the old ways.
Please read the post again, re: Opting out of ads.