> Personally, I
     > consider ad-blocking a form of theft,
             priceless. You might have not noticed but people are
     supposed
             to own their computers. So the actual theft is done by the
     ad
             publishers who are criminally accessing hardware they do not
             own. That's especially blatant in the case of the tons of
             javashit tracking malware they run on the computers of their
             victims.

   Sure, it's their computer, but they chose to visit a site which is not
   theirs, One that was created and maintained by somebody else. It costs
   to create and host sites, if there is no means for monetization then
   the likely macro repercussion is less sites or more pay-sites. Perhaps
   someday on some sites you may choose:  1. micro-crypto payments. 2.
   give me ads. 3. allow my browser to mini-mine crypto for the site
   owner. 4. by donation ie wikipedia.... There is no free lunch, the
   attitude that people should get something for nothing in my opinion is
   a cancer to society.