I don't adblock because I don't want ads; I adblock because the vast majority of ads are garbage, distracting, noisy, and frustrating, blocking huge swaths of the page and making the content harder or impossible to see, and because tracking pixels, third-party JS, analytics, and so on all make page loading 10-30 times slower (or worse).
If a company is serving good, simple ads, if they don't take up an inordinate amount of space, slow my computer, waste massive amounts of bandwidth, and overall ruin my web browsing experience, I'm fine with it.
But no one is. So I adblock.
If the end result of adblock is that websites stop being slow, user-hostile blobs of ads and third-party analytics, then I'd consider that an overall win. If the result is that websites start relying on reasonable subscription or access fees and that people become willing to pay that, then even better.
I find that the best media is created by people who have a job other than "content creation to farm eyeballs for ads". If advertising disappeared, there'd be a lot less crap on the internet.
If a company is serving good, simple ads, if they don't take up an inordinate amount of space, slow my computer, waste massive amounts of bandwidth, and overall ruin my web browsing experience, I'm fine with it.
But no one is. So I adblock.
If the end result of adblock is that websites stop being slow, user-hostile blobs of ads and third-party analytics, then I'd consider that an overall win. If the result is that websites start relying on reasonable subscription or access fees and that people become willing to pay that, then even better.