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I've been using uBlock since it came out and I just immediately leave those sites that don't function unless I disable it. Whatever content they have, someone else likely has a "good enough" alternative.

I also happen to run a blog (no where near a major website) but my thought process is, you should write because you want to spread what you've learned with others, not create a platform for the sole purpose of making money.

To me, having a visitor on your site is a privilege. Why would you go out of your way to interrupt and attempt to manipulate them, yet that's what so many large sites do. There's other ways to make money rather than tormenting your users.

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But you are not writing for a living, so it is easy to say, just doing it for the joy and not for money. But there are people which profession is writing - and they need to get money.

The normal way, unfortunately is with ads, even though nobody likes them.

My preferred solution of voluntarily pay what you want ... probably takes a bit more time, to become established.

I do write for a living, but instead of basing my business model around selling ads I went with a different approach (doing freelance work and training).

I know that's not applicable to every writing industry, but those other industries have different ways to generate income too.

Should everyone do their job for free? It's reasonable to try to make money writing.

A site can disable access to those using adblock, and it's reasonable to choose to avoid those websites.

I apply the same logic but to website that has annoying ads. You annoy me, I go somewhere else.

I have the privilege to have content creators to visit, not the other way around. There is 8 billions potential visitors, there's can only be less than that potential content creator. Visiting takes no time, creating takes so much more time (if it wouldn't, well I wouldn't even read your stuff, I would do it myself).

> There's other ways to make money rather than tormenting your users.

Sure, but what does it have to do with me visiting your website? I'm there for a single reason, read what you got. Except if you directly sell me what you write using a paywall, if you have a sideline, than what you do is ADVERTISING, which let me remind you, you don't like (I don't either). At least using advertising on the side of what you read, the text is no longer an advertisement, just what's beside it (which is clearly labeled and clearly ads).

Since the explosion of adblocker and the effect was increased after the Youtube Adpocalypse, there is so much more sponsored content produced, it's disgusting. I can live with some of it but currently, it just becomes worse and worse.

> I just immediately leave those sites that don't function unless I disable it

"Your terms are acceptable."

I think that is precisely what those sites want. They would probably prefer not to waste bandwidth on a user they can't monetize.

I doubt bandwidth is their concern. They already wasted bandwidth by showing the anti-ad block wall.

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