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You have it backwards, Adblocking exploded after tracking became commonplace and invasive, and it has only gotten worse on that front. I get the vague impression you weren’t around for the days when malvertising was a chronic threat created exclusively by greedy companies without decent security controls. Bring back dumb ads and I’ll see them. I’m still going to block every form of JavaScript on your site that I can, but I’ll undoubtedly see your banner ads.
And I get the impression you weren't around for the first ad blockers. I recall it very differently and unless you have something to back up your end of it we're at a bit of an impasse.
I've been around far longer than you think.
There were no adblocking extensions for early internet explorer so consider its share 0.
Adblocking increased at twice the rate of new internet users as a result of certain folks despising the idea of being tracked and/or hacked. If every adblock developer worth looking at weren’t also a security enthusiast, you might have a point.
I’ve spent 20 minutes looking up statistics for a dude who’s very obviously trolling or roleplaying and I hate that. You’ve won, I slightly burned my chicken au jus.
https://dailywireless.org/internet/usage-statistics/?ref=hackernoon.com
https://www.statista.com/statistics/435252/adblock-users-worldwide/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
What you consider it to be is irrelevant. An extension wasn't any more the only way to block ads then than it is now. Ad blocking has absolutely been happening longer than there have been extensions to do it.
Which means it's going to reach a critical mass at some point, no? What would you expect to happen then?
Damn am I sick of people falling on this regardless of what the disagreement is over or who it is with. Even if it were true, which it's not, you have a better picture of the situation, at least if you're willing to accept that someone legitimately disagrees with you.
I'm sorry to hear about your food