Here is your argument : "I used AdBlock and was happy with it. Then I worked for someone who lived from advertising, so I'm not happy with it anymore." I call

Here is your argument : "I used AdBlock and was happy with it. Then I worked for someone who lived from advertising, so I'm not happy with it anymore." I call that being a slave of the one who feeds you. From a Marxist point of view, you're only becoming servant of the interests of your exploiter, and now are trying to share this point of view with the world. Without even thinking one instant that maybe living off advertising has no moral justification. Being exposed to advertising, as you say it yourself (when acknowledging that you don't have to click on the ads), is being unconsciously manipulated by them, and that's exactly what they are trying to do. Advertising is not work, it is not producing anything useful for the society. It is only trying to either create needs or direct customer's attention to a particular vendor without any objective comparison between products, often creating value out of thin air just by gregarious feeling (so called "brands" making people happy to buy something not for what it brings to them but because they'll be happy to show their mates how cool they are to possess something with a particular logo on it). So well, I recently installed AdBlock because I was tired of having my speakers start to shout silly songs when browsing the web at night, surprising me and making my heart rate jump sky high. Otherwise I've trained to filter visually the ads and completely ignore them. I don't feel any guilt of having less noise in the pages I visit. For the ones who feel like they deserve some money for the time they put into their blog, just put a donation button somewhere, be transparent with how much money you make from it, and I won't mind a popup asking to click on it.