Does anyone else see "you're using adblock, please disable to continue" and then take great pleasure in saying "ah well, your loss" before closing the page?
Especially since I'm not actually running an ad-blocker, just a cookie-filter. Cookies local to the site? OK, I can accept that. Tracking cookies? Heck no.
I accept that people gotta pay the bills, and unless I want to have some really nasty and buggy micropayment system just to browse websites (because I don't see that being anywhere near as neat, efficient, or free of bugs and vulnerabilities as people wishfully think), then advertising is a way to sustain those sites. Reasonable advertising, maybe even clever ones if they aren't too lazy.Ads that don't interfere with your usage of a site, hog your resources, and follow you for weeks afterwards. But obviously it's the tracking that they want on those sites, and that doesn't settle well with me. There are products I had considered buying, then didn't because the ads for them followed me everywhere.