My point it: people mostly hated ads since they were invented. Be it by not looking at them on the street, changing channels on tv or installing AdBlock on your computer, they do their best to avoid them.
I agree that people hate ads and people also hate paying for things that can get for free(piracy).
You guys are missing my point of ad blockers being borderline piracy and mainly try to justify your reason for using them.
In many ways, Web ads are worse than TV ads because they often aren't switching between ads and content -- they are experienced at the same time. Most Webpages with ads aren't a commercial and then the content, it's the content with the commercials at the periphery of your vision. This means that without adblocking, the user cannot make the choice to read the content undistracted by commercials as they can with TV.
A closer analogy would be if TV shows came with commercials playing (sometimes with sound or popups) along all the borders of a TV show, and it was considered piracy to put a piece of cardboard over that ad-filled border. Muting is no different.
Is it piracy when crackers remove part of the software that secures it as that annoys people and they only want to use the functionality?
Then you will be getting into the DRM war that many others are fighting and are losing.