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I disagree that most people use ad blockers because they “don’t want to see [any] ads.”

Meaning, if advertisers hadn’t built more and more intrusive ads and had stuck with static ads that don’t severely harm the UX, then I doubt most users would bother with ad blockers.

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Yeah no one would care about magazine style ads with an ordinary click through link. Especially if clicking resulting something useful instead of being the browsing equivalent of jumping into a dumpster fire.

The advertiser arms race has resulted in a classic tragedy of the commons. That's my diagnosis of the problem. Traditionally regulation is needed to fix that. Exactly what that entails is beyond me.

I think you are misinterpreting the comment you're replying to. It's arguing that people block ads because they dislike seeing the ads they're seeing (as opposed to for privacy or resource usage concerns), not because they dislike all possible ads, which is what you're arguing against.

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