"All sides come out having some reasonable points and some entitled-kids feeling IMO. In particular, the "wahh, my ads were blocked" websites sound a lot like t

"All sides come out having some reasonable points and some entitled-kids feeling IMO. In particular, the "wahh, my ads were blocked" websites sound a lot like the RIAA at times" eventually, people will be saying "wahh..why do I have to pay for my favorite site..it used to be free". My problem isn't that ads are blocked. If you want to block a site's ads, this is fine. However, these adblockers are blocking ads on pretty much every site that uses them. Many ads are getting blocked on sites that the user has never even seen. How do you know that they are intrusive if you have never even seen the ads? "(though Ars avoids most of the more annoying rhetoric), attempting to blame someone else for the fact that their business model no longer works, instead of finding a new business model." If the majority if users coming to their site are using an adblocker, and they make their money on ads, it's the adblocker that is preventing them from making money, not the model. You may say that those people wouldn't have clicked on those ads, but many people I know installed an adblocker in their friends/family members computers. Those people don't even know that there are ads on many of the sites where they are blocked. If this trend continues,advertising will no longer be profitable, not because it doesn't work, but because it's being blocked.