I agree.
But advertisers abuse
Maybe it's time for 'ad toning down' instead of blocking all of them, block animated gifs, block big images, etc (though in mobile this is not so bad)
But advertisers abuse
Maybe it's time for 'ad toning down' instead of blocking all of them, block animated gifs, block big images, etc (though in mobile this is not so bad)
The fact that the list is managed privately and that whether a company pays them influences whether they're blocked does muddy the waters quite a bit.
https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads-agreements#payment
Not all ad blockers do this. Eg: https://getadblock.com/ doesn't (disclosure: creator is a friend of mine and I once worked a bit on the product). uBlock also doesn't do this: https://www.ublock.org/
And I'm sure there are others.