Arch never failed me. The only time I remember it panicked was when I naively stopped an upgrade in the middle which failed to generate initramfs but quickly fixed it by chroot'ing and running mkinitcpio. Back up in no time
Ad blocking is necessary to avoid malware and spyware which is spread by google adsense all the time. It's not just convenient, most trackers won't go out of their way to improve their tracking if a few users start blocking it. Get real and stop parroting