Adblock isn't immoral
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The underlying problem is the basic monetary model of the web is broken. We need something like micropayments. Maybe Ethereum will make this possible.
No they don't. Website owners force this on people who want to view their ad-supported content. If you don't like the ad-supported content, nobody is forcing you to view it.
This article has no new content, just a restatement that some ads are bad, which nobody disputes.
Personally I add sites to point to 127.0.0.1 in my host file and call it a day. Does them a favor and I don't need to keep track of which links to avoid clicking because the site tells me to disable my ad block or isn't available without removing ad block. If it hits localhost I go back a page and move on with my life.
If it is important or worth knowing about - it will be reposted somewhere or spoken about somewhere where I will be able to read it without going to their site.
For what it's worth, I also add the sites that ask me politely to disable my ad blocker. If they're going to give me the option to continue to view their content with it enabled, I consider it polite to decline and not continue to waste their bandwidth on serving me their pages.
I personally use uMatrix (more control than uBlock).