I use an ad-blocker mostly for self-defense, but also because corporations generally play hard-ball with the populous and so I generally enjoy passively disrupt

I use an ad-blocker mostly for self-defense, but also because corporations generally play hard-ball with the populous and so I generally enjoy passively disrupting their systems. There's no other way to deal with zero-day exploits that are delivered via ad networks. I also wouldn't mind seeing ad-supported services mostly die off, unlikely as that seems :)