this is a fallacious statement. buying a DVR to skip TV ads is not the equivalent of buying a membership to your site to avoid seeing ads. buying a DVR to skip tv commercials still HURTS the network bcuz you’re not necessarily buying the DVR from them as a trade-off to avoid commercials. why didn’t you use the analogy of buying an ad blocker to avoid ads? yes, why didn’t you use that analogy?

What I would like to have is nanodonations on my site:
as in:
I have no ads in this site. Would you care to chip in
$0.01 — worth a read
$0.05 — very nice read
$1.00 — THIS BLOG POST WAS VERY HELPFUL
$20.00 — THIS BLOG POST TURNED MY CAREER OR LIFE AROUND

If you tracked this on a post by post basis, you’d soon find out which your good posts are.

If everyone was to block ads, then advertisers would no longer pay webmasters because there is no need for ads……….. so guess what, you the user will have to pay to view each and every webpage(pay 20p to check each email).

So would you rather pay to view each website? Or let the advertisers pay for you, and have to put up with targeted non-intrusive ads alongside your content. Which you actually would click. I click ads all the time because they are relative to my content. Affiliate links make up half the links on the web, you are missing out on a lot of good information. The fact that the link is being payed for does not always mean the link will take you somewhere you don’t want to go.

Yes many websites use intrusive annoying ads, simple, dont go to those sites, those sites generally go out of business anyway because no one goes to them.

Without advertising how would you know about new movies coming out, new resteraunts to go to, the best locations to go on holiday? You would have a very boring life. The internet is a place advertising can live a rich life, bad advertising is easy to spot, so avoid those sites and enjoy the good advertising and the ability to browse the internet for free.

I am a webmaster, personally if all ads got blocked and advertising died, I could make a lot more money by charging people for viewing my website when that becomes the normal thing to do. But I don’t want that, I believe in freedom. But then I could also do with a new house and car, so if you want to pay for it, keep blocking ads.

If the definition of stealing wasn’t relevant, why did you challenge your readers to look it up? I took you up on your challenge, and I looked it up. I don’t believe it’s stealing in ANY state to refuse to waste your time, waiting for images you don’t want to download.

A few years ago, presidential candidate Gary Hart issued a challenge to the press, saying “Follow me around. I don’t care. I’m serious. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They’ll be very bored.” So they followed him around, and sure enough, they found out that he was engaged in monkey business with Donna Rice aboard a boat named the Monkey Business.

I don’t have time to make every mistake myself – I have to learn from the mistakes of others. Apparently, you expect to live a few more centuries than I expect to live…. But if you issue a challenge, you should expect that SOMEBODY may take you up on it.

People get annoyed when they see ads JUST EVERYWHERE.
They resolve to using an AdBlocker, when they feels that the sole aim of the blog/site is to make money. If you ever create a feeling like that in the minds of a blogger, you can dead sure that, they wont see your ADs anymore.

Yes. I’ve ads on my blog. No ADs on the front page.
One on top of the post and one at the bottom. I’ve made sure that it doesnt interfere with my content.

Still I don’t think using a Ad Blocker has to do with stealing. Most advertising has gotten to the point of making my web experience annoying. I have no choice but to block them.