I like using free services and I'd like to support the owner. As such, I don't use AdBlock. I remember years ago when Ars Technica ran the article "Why Ad Bloc

I like using free services and I'd like to support the owner. As such, I don't use AdBlock. I remember years ago when Ars Technica ran the article "Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love": http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/03/why-ad-blocking-is-devastating-to-the-sites-you-love/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/03/why-ad-blocking-is-d... So I disabled AdBlock on Ars Technica. I was immediately greeted with a horrible blinking ad claiming some nonsense that was completely insulting--the IT equivalent of those "punch the monkey" ads. I turned AdBlock back on. I've never turned it back off on Ars Technica. Websites that run advertising cannot pretend that advertising is somehow separate from the site. Advertising becomes part of the content. Ads are therefore representative of the site. Website owners should curate the ads as carefully as the site's main content. Otherwise they're committing some of the same sins as spammers.