"When you block those ads but still read the content, you're stealing the access/time/production/value of that content without letting the publisher recoup any

"When you block those ads but still read the content, you're stealing the access/time/production/value of that content without letting the publisher recoup any of their investment or make any profit." No, you're not. Just as you're not stealing when you mute commercials on TV or go to the bathroom, or fast-forward past them, or use the 30-second skip button. If they want to try that business model, it's on them to make it work, not on users to make it work for them. They're saying, "Hey, we think our content is good enough that you'll put up with huge percentages of our pages being taken up by other irrelevant stuff." If it turns out the annoying stuff is too annoying, that's their problem to fix, and not putting up with it is in absolutely no way stealing.