[Sfi81]

Follow the money.. All $150 billion of it (1)

The reason you see a lot of opinion pieces against ad blocking in mainstream press and blogs is because their main income stream comes digital advertising and either changing business model to paid content or negating ad blocking will take a lot of effort and expense.

There's literally hundreds of thousands of people in the journalism and ad industry who's ability to put bread on the table is put at risk and Apple's support for ad blocking threatens to tips the scale of blocking use. Naturally there is every incentive to expend journalistic and PR efforts to protect their income stream. Much like the music industry did in Napster days before iTunes.

It has very little to do with rights and morals and the like. I'd be surprised if most of the tech savvy writers writing these pieces don't use ad blocking themselves personally.

1. http://www.statista.com/statistics/237974/online-advertising...