I'm tech savvy (software developer for 15+ years) but I used to be a web journalist in my early days and I can appreciate the need of ads. So I wouldn't block a

I'm tech savvy (software developer for 15+ years) but I used to be a web journalist in my early days and I can appreciate the need of ads. So I wouldn't block ads until a year age or so. But I'm still very conscious of pages I visit, whether I want to give them eyeballs or not (POS at NYT are in the "not") and I exempt many pages from ad blocking.