> Wired's prediction is even more annoying because they've started begging me to turn off my adblocker last time I visited them a couple of days ago

Forbes "30 under 30": They don't let you read articles if you adblock... "To read this, you must disable". They create an article security nerds want to read... which then serves up a pop-under adware to steal passwords.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160111/05574633295/forbe...

I lost my compassion after that one. (I didn't get bit... but I had disabled adblock for one or two of their articles temporarily... not again)