How so? Just because an article is published by the press, does not mean I am obligated to view it. The users who install AdBlock are doing so on their free will, not being forced by governmental or other propaganda groups.
> Their publishers had sought damages, but said their motivation
> was to challenge the software provider's wider business model.
> While AdBlock Plus offers its web browser add-on to the public
> for free, it makes money by operating a "white list" of adverts that
> it allows to get through its filters.
> In February, the Financial Times reported that one unnamed
> media company had said it had been asked to pass on the
> equivalent of 30% of the extra revenues it would have made
> by having ads on its platform unblocked.Besides reducing press to current publishers, this view is confusing a negative right (to publish anything) with a positive one (to make a living with ads).