This is what scared me about Add Block by default on browsers. Essentially what's happening is the monopolies (Google & FB) get to keep their profitable business models while all small time content publishers get stripped of revenue. WTF !?
Where's the Anti trust regulation? You'd think they were conspiring to kill independent content creation. Or are they?
I think ABP came up with a good list that actually indicates when ads have minimal negative impact. Does following those rules actually harm independent content creation? Before installing ad blocking it was not at all infequent for me to not look at websites at all because the ads were too obnoxious. OTOH, when I find an article valuable I usually look around more at what the site has to offer and would at least see the less obtrusive ads at that point even if I missed them earlier.