[smacktoward]

Probably not "threatened" so much as chagrined by the flood of "ad blockers are killing the independent web" articles that accompanied the release of the iOS ad blockers, such as this one from The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/17/9338963/welcome-to-hell-ap...

It's one thing to know you're hurting somebody's livelihood in the abstract, it's another to have them specifically call you out over it.