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Well as a user I might share a link to a site that will be seen by 100 or 1000's of others, on Facebook, Reddit or whatever social network. If that website blocks me from visiting them at first place, they will also loose all the potential revenue from the viral effect.

Is it what you call a leech ?

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But your friends have larger chance also being ad blocker users, right? In the end, the website just get more requests and a bigger bill from ISP without getting a cent from those.

You're assuming the set of people who dislike ads and actively block them, intersects with the set of people who don't mind ads.

I'm not convinced that's the case. They're usually quite different demographics.

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