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Do you switch channels on your TV when the commercials start and switch back when the show resumes? Blocking online ads is basically the same. i.e. perfectly legitimate.

Only you hurt the creator more online, since the advertisers can now measure the views+clicks. Which is also perfectly fair - They should not have to pay for ads nobody sees. This would also be fair on TV - But there it's impossible to measure.

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> This would also be fair on TV - But there it's impossible to measure.

Offtopic, but Neilsen actually does measure whether people are changing channels during commercials.

First of all I do not watch TV. I assume that's why netflix is so popular. Please pardon me i am not sure if it has an ads in it or not but i assumed since it's a content on demand it does not.

Also simply blocking something because you can but you should not is cheating.

Cheating? How is it that controlling what my software, running in my hardware, running on my power does or does not do is cheating? Should I not have control over what's mine?

If a website finds that their business model became unsuited for modern times, it's their responsibility to change it, not mine.

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