> why can't an ad-blocker plugin still trigger a payment for the ad view, while preventing me from seeing it? The ad-blocker won't load the ad at all for two r

> why can't an ad-blocker plugin still trigger a payment for the ad view, while preventing me from seeing it? The ad-blocker won't load the ad at all for two reasons. 1) Performance. Less to load (and process, and render, etc) means faster load times, less bandwidth consumption, lower CPU usage (think about all those extra scripts), etc. 2) Privacy. If your computer contacts the ad network at all, then it could track you. Because the blocker fundamentally can't load the ad or contact the respective network while also doing its job, triggering a payment would seem to be more or less impossible.