In this age of drive-by downloads, (100% legal) sorched-earth adblocking has all the advantages and none of the disadvantages. If the web advertising would poli

In this age of drive-by downloads, (100% legal) sorched-earth adblocking has all the advantages and none of the disadvantages. If the web advertising would police themselves better none of this would be neccessary. They are not held responsible in any financial and/or legal sense for any damage they incur when a malware incursion occurs, or the dire consequences for a end-user if they get botnetted into doing something dire that would bring down the wrath of law enforcement. The longer they drag their feet on reforming the Wild Wild West that is web advertising the more likely adblocking will turn into the status quo for an increasing percentage of people and they're not going back to the old ways of usage anytime soon. All the guilt-tripping advertisers are trying to pull is wasted on adblockers because they're not the ones actually producing the content people give a shit about, a subtle but important difference It's like venture capitalists trying to harangue the customer base of a startup they're involved with. I don't expect things to improve with the ad networks anytime soon. Just the mere thought of the DNT flag being default on Firefox was enough to send them into a frenzy. Most of them explicitly ignore the flag anyway.