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UK Gov't Launches Anti-Adblocking Initiative, Compares It To Piracy (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: UK culture secretary John Whittingdale has announced that the British government will set up a 'round-table' between online publishers and adblocking companies to discuss the 'problem' of adblocking. He described the practice of charging companies to be whitelisted as a 'modern day protection racket', and said: "Quite simply – if people don't pay in some way for content, then that content will eventually no longer exist And that's as true for the latest piece of journalism as it is for the new album from Muse." The issue has largely been left to the market to self-regulate until now, although Germany's courts ruled adblocking legal in 2015.
Well even unlike your conditions, the problems are the Ad's can be dangerous to your computer, and your privacy.
I keep an Ad blocker, not because I want to deprive sites with revenue, but there are dangerous Ad's out there, ones that try to collect data on your browsing habits, run poorly written code that slows your computer down to a crawl.
Ad blockers are an important defence against malware.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
It costs money to confirm that content is safe for consumption, ads are no different. The whitelisting fee goes toward verifying that the ad is safe, non-intrusive, and not a vector for malware.