Personally I will always be quite uncomfortable when the blocking of ads/tracking/data mining is provided by those with (not necessarily direct) links to the ad

Personally I will always be quite uncomfortable when the blocking of ads/tracking/data mining is provided by those with (not necessarily direct) links to the ads/tracking/data mining industry. My view on this is that this is the least worse solution for them to deal with the reality of more and more people using blockers, the worst being the solutions for which the ads/tracking/data mining industry has no say at all -- rather keep some control over none at all.