the attitude that people should get something for nothing
This was not first created by the users. It was created and proliferated first by the companies that decided they could gobble up millions to billions of sheeple in market share grabs to further abuse them, many who were averse to carding and partly ID aware anyway, by giving away their crap and candy crush for free. Now sheeple learning it was never really free even then, that they got fucked, and are somewhat beginning to fight back. If the top 100 free in alexa dropped the abusive selling out their users and posted a shutdown date unless micropay came in via crypto, they'd monetize right quick, and make crypto moon... well except for the fact that they're by definition legacy services with legacy ceo's / investors / policies and politik and basically suck ass anyway. Bottom line, ad blockers are likely required for the fuckers evolve or die, so turn em on and abuse them back, then leave them. Which leaves a ton of new room for you to start new services that are actually cool and honorable, recoup expenses, and quite possible make a handy profit actually doing things for the users instead of abjectly against them. Nor are ads themselves necessarily the evil, they can be done ethically, it's today's secret sellout games that goes on behind them. The crypto economy will definitely reward any service that isn't out to fuck their users, places them first, and defends and lobbies for them as their customers. It's a symbiotic balance that for too long has been tilted against the users. Crypto weed and vpn were the first examples. Now there's all sorts of markets goods services worldwide, both brick and mortar and virtual. Crypto, anon, leaks, and activists are tilting it back.