What's the point in switching channel, they all have ads at the same time. I mute or leave to get a snack.

lol youre telling me you wouldnt be able to live without some youtubers and then claim I live in a "bubblegum world"? wow.

Subbable & Patreon are a good way IMO

Hey, me too. I resisted getting adblock for a long, long time until VGC started crashing Firefox with every other page i clicked through because the flash ads would just overload the browser.

Now i'm a touch addicted to how much more smoothly websites run, which should say something about the majority of ads: clumsy, flash-based garbage that just occupies CPU cycles and very rarely mean anything to me anyway. Right now i'm on a school computer and have one of those idiotic "ridiculously easy trick" ads telling me something about car insurance, something i have no interest in switching.

Now, anilinkz.com is filled with lots of ads, but they, for instance, have a "watch mode" button that will eliminate everything but the background banner. Having made that concession for us, i return the favor by disabling adblock.

Being missed by people =/= People couldn't live without it. People could live without TV, doesn't mean that many wouldn't miss it.

Well you must be really emotionally attached to a youtuber, or losing out financially yourself to think that its not possible for someone else to make a just as good review if they were not getting paid for adverts.

You seriously have no idea what you're talking about and I don't even know why you insist on limiting this whole thing on reviews, there is a ton more content on the internet that would be lost if the money would go away.

Pachter is totally right though and if you're stupid enough to be cocky about that topic and be proud of using adblock (which I use as well on my personal laptop, but I don't feel good admitting it) because you think you deserve to get anything for free, then you shouldn't be surprised to get called out.

Also there are already sites that don't show any content unless you disable adblock. The more people get adblock, the higher the risk for other sites to jump on board.

Instead of arguing among each other and calling each other thieves or greedy, why don't we direct the vitriol to the CAUSE of this argument in the first place? The people that demand the most intrusive ads possible. The people that make the 'x' button small or misleading so that the viewer is redirected to their site? I don't mind a banner above or on either side of the page I'm viewing. Heck, even the commercials before a video are fine if they're reasonably brief. But popup video ads and other actively invasive ads are abhorrent.

I see both sides of the argument, but it's incredibly closed minded to say there is a definitive 'right' and 'wrong' side. Malware and Spyware run rampant and calling someone a thief for trying to avoid a virus or view a website in peace is completely unreasonable. Just as it's unreasonable for someone to not whitelist a site with unobtrusive ads so that the content creators can earn money for their work, while keeping content 'free' for the users.

Unfortunately, this seems like a no-win situation anyone. For the content creators, they lose revenue and for the adblockers, I could eventually see those content creators forced into doing product placements within their own works or forcing subscription fees, which is far more annoying than a banner ad.

Except for the fact that it wouldn't go away. You keep this wrong mindset that there aren't other ways to monetize and profit on the internet. You also forget that the internet lived a long long time before Ads which tells me you probably don't have a whole lot of experience or memory of pre-ad internet. It's a ridiculous notion especially when you look at the darknet(which is 90% of the internet that most people don't have access to) A lot of it is completely Ad free and generates tons of profits without the need of annoying Ads.