We wouldn't need any of these techniques if advertisers weren't so abusive.(i know it's been said many times over) If you ever watch really old game shows like "What's My Line?", they sometimes show the same commercials from the 1950s; it's astounding to see commercials and promotions that are relatively short, not overtly distracting, and mostly focus on the merits of the product. If commercials were still like that, I'd probably still have a cable subscription, I might even be paying for Hulu, and I would even have adblock turned off. But the nature of the advertising industry is that if you give them an inch, they'll take a mile and then some. So while there is certainly a valid ethics debate around advertising and ad blocking, until the advertising industry changes their methodology that they've had in place long before ad blocking plugins were invented, I will have next to no sympathy for them no matter how unethical a piece of adblocking software might go. Though it's been said numerous times before, turning off adblock after having it on for a significant amount of time(e.g. to denormalize the prevalence of ads) is all the evidence one needs to see how completely messed up digital advertising still is.

Fortunately, many YouTubers and a lot of podcasters have already figured out that the way to go for advertising revenue is not through AdSense or stock preroll ads, but through having hosts themselves endorse a product for a portion of the show(that they have supposedly tried themselves) and making up the rest through Patreon. This harkens back to how many radio shows used to be and, honestly, it works because it's not very repetitive and the fact that the host is speaking for it says something. The corporate world either doesn't understand or like this, and are still gung ho to ram advertising down our throats. Better than adblocking, I rather just don't pay for their overvalued media to begin with. I don't pay for cable, I rarely go to the movies or buy them, I don't pay for Hulu, and I support internet shows that don't rely on AdSense. Life is actually pretty good when you pull most of your plugs.