I agree, to an extent. Those sites should not be allowed to be indexed by search engines if they want it that way. If an article is indexed by a search engine a

I agree, to an extent. Those sites should not be allowed to be indexed by search engines if they want it that way. If an article is indexed by a search engine and they clearly benefit from that traffic, the page should be open to the public, even if they have ad blockers. Like most people in these threads, I want to support websites but I'm not going to give up my 1) privacy 2) bandwidth 3) battery life and 4) security just so these sites can shove annoying ads in my face. For example, The Atlantic, which I subscribe to, continues to give me nags about my adblocker usage. I specifically block them because they are the annoying ads that animate and flash and make it impossible for me to actually focus on the text/content that I'm paying them for. It's obnoxious. Ad blockers would not be so prevalent today if companies had not completely given up control of their advertisements to third party ad companies, who don't have the best interests of the viewer or even the site owner in mind.