I couldn't use the Internet without Adblock and Flashblock. Just like I couldn't read a novel if it every page were surrounded by flashing neon and ads randomly

I couldn't use the Internet without Adblock and Flashblock. Just like I couldn't read a novel if it every page were surrounded by flashing neon and ads randomly inserted between paragraphs, I can't read your website if the content is dominated by ads. Let me spell it out - if your website is worse than a newspaper, it deserves to be adblocked. Every site I've seen with ads, well, they're worse than a newspaper. As for feeling entitled, I just want to point out that bit torrents trackers have never had trouble supporting themselves without ads or paid content of any kind... (Despite which I'm happy to support things like my local public radio station.) (Though I'm a big fan of Ghostery, too -- the amount of trackers sites use is ridiculous and who knows what someone is able to do with the data.) Also, my new pet peeve: links that don't go where they say. Google is especially bad about this -- any link in your Gmail goes to some Google URL that then sends you to where you really wanted to go -- though plenty of other site are doing it too. They could be sending you to malware-r-us and making it look like a link to happy-happy-choo-choo.com. I think browsers should refuse to display links that don't display the same location they're targeting, however it's done. I think it might be on the way out though -- it seems to have been 'undoned' from Google news.