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Agreed. I did see a few "disable your ad-blocker or you can't use our website" notices a couple months back but haven't seen one since.

It would be interesting to see what happened to their numbers. I imagine they alienated a lot of users by doing that and had to stop.

At my company we have an initiative to roll an ad-blocker out to about 2,500 desktops just to prevent the clean-up costs and improve user experience while using our own white lists. Given our industry, we just can't risk it even with threat management firewalls, OpenDNS Umbrella, and some well-engineered multi-layer security going on.

The disappointing thing for me is that I appreciate well-placed and curated ads. I white list some sites to support them, etc.

It's the websites the remind me of the sort of silliness in the movie Idiocracy [1] are impossible to use, not to mention trust with your computer.

[1] https://filmdump.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/idiocracy-1.jpe...