>>http://adage.com/article/ken-wheaton/ad-blocking-parasite/300342/
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>"Sorry ad blockers, I assume you mean well and you have a point about page-load times and ads junked up with tracking tools and Trojan horses and the like. But theft is still theft, even if it's dressed up as some sort of digital Robin Hood act."
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>What an asshat. I've been using AdBlock for so long the internet looks foreign to me when I'm on a computer without it.
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>Advertisers weren't content to serve up static ads, they had to track us everywhere we went. Turns out consumers don't like being tracked, numbered, barcoded, boxed, packaged, and targeted. Who knew? The ad industry is reaping what it sowed.

That paragraph nails it, doesn't it? ;) ElReg uses the same quote:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/15/to_read_this_page_please_turn_off_your_ad_blocker/

It must be a very strange world when one's entire existence is Kool-Aid.