In a world where the major advertising companies (Google & Facebook) respected users privacy and security I'd tend to agree with this assessment. We do not liv

In a world where the major advertising companies (Google & Facebook) respected users privacy and security I'd tend to agree with this assessment. We do not live in such a world. Without some form of counter-balance they will continue to erode what is previously acceptable behaviour re individual rights. Adblockers provide some of that counter-balance. The other dirty secret of the largest 'free' adblocker services (other than some purely open-source options) is that many of them are funded via kickbacks from Google. Google pays such services to allow their ads to continue to be displayed. When users pay for a service it is clearer what the incentives are for the service's behaviour.