Sure advertising is the "business model of the Internet", but I have a hard time getting a hair across my ass about the fact people use blockers. Maybe because

Sure advertising is the "business model of the Internet", but I have a hard time getting a hair across my ass about the fact people use blockers. Maybe because I don't work in an ad-supported industry means I don't have to rationale to myself it's not scummy. You can say ad-blockers are "the problem", but they're really a negotiating tactic. Remember the bad old days? When advertisers and those selling ad space were arrogant to think they could get away with anything? They destroyed the user experience so badly people wrote software to get rid of them. Now advertisers have to balance the intrusiveness of their ads against driving more users to install blocking or remembering to reinstall adblock on their new computer. Yes, websites depend on advertising to stay afloat, but why should I care? Nobody is entitled to a business model.