Chrome to Start Charging You in 2018

darsben1 wrote:
If you block ad's the publishers of websites for news, entertainment, etc get no revenue and then what.

You are only seeing/telling part of the story.
(And your second post didn't change that fact either.)

I too saw no need for an ad blocker until two things happened:
First, many of the ads are "pass through"; that is the site owner gives somebody else permission to imbed links into it's content and change those links and their content at will. This is a HUGE SECURITY HOLE.

Secondly, "they" killed the goose that laid the advertising egg by not putting a reasonable limit on the number of ads that are served up.

I spent **** near a week trying to figure out why my Internet connection was getting slower and slower. When the pattern finally emerged, it was because of the BLOAT caused by multiple ads.....that were coming from other sites and those sites were slow. I can now replicate that problem pretty much at will by turning off my AdBlocker. Some sites I visit allow more than 30 foreign elements to load with EVERY PAGE that displays.

I do not feel sorry for those folks AT ALL.
When they assure me that there is some security screening on the pass through ads AND they agree to limit them to something reasonable AND sever their agreement with companies that are chronically slow.....then I will remove my ad blocking software; not before.

Also note that pages that contain ads that are an actual part of the site you are connected to are generally not a problem and won't be touched by "ad blockers".