And that short burst of traffic from a tech savvy group with probably >90% adblock might earn you, like what.. $1.50?
Was anyone successful? Are they served from more than one place?
edit: and that I can live with.
Remember that the people who use adblock talk about it a lot, and those who don't use it don't talk about it.
The reason is that ad blocking is killing the media, which is necessary for a functioning democracy. The magnitude of suffering a collective return to autocracy would cause is so disproportional to being slightly annoyed by ads, it doesn’t even matter if your faith in the importance of a free press is just a fraction of mine.
It’s usually not well received on HN, because journalists are generally held in lower regard than war criminals or chocolate thieves.