I'm seeing the advertisers fighting back with brute force tactics to defend the status quo. Depends on where you browse, of course, but a lot of the biggest sites, with the biggest stake in what's now cleverly being called "surveillance capitalism", detect your use of an adblocker and would rather turn you away than give up the chance to maybe earn a half cent if somebody clicks on an ad.

Do they imagine that somebody who uses an ad blocker would start clicking on ads with wild abandon if only they could see them?

Say, Tom, now that I think about it, I recall some past discussions in which you defended advertising as not just benign but beneficial, you have no objection to it, blah blah blah...and now you admit to using an ad blocker?

What are you, some kind of commie trying to starve our benevolent corporate overlords of their rightful sustenance? No trickle down for you!