There's nothing intrinsically wrong with blocking ads, especially if you find them offensive. Some of the worst examples feature rapidly flashing animations.

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with blocking ads, especially if you find them offensive. Some of the worst examples feature rapidly flashing animations. To someone like me they're just an irritant to be eliminated as quickly as possible. To someone with epilepsy the situation could be more serious. This sort of disrespectful advertising is what we don't want to see on the web. I'm not against advertising online, but I think there need to be changes in the way ads are served/approved/regulated - perhaps with an industry-wide code of conduct being adopted. Ads are subject to regulation when they're shown on television, and maybe there needs to be some similar process for the internet.