[ACow_Adonis]

I feel compelled to write a reply just so there's a record on the internet in an archive somewhere of how history actually was.

Its like industry is trying to actively change history.

Practically no one saw or has seen ad-blocking as akin to stealing. This is a line completely made up by the advertising industry to try to co-opt a publicly available communication and content publishing system that existed and was being heavily used BEFORE advertising was prevalent.

Advertisers came along and polluted the internet after the internet was being used and free content was already being posted.

Ad-blocking arose as an organic and natural reaction to advertisers beginning to appear and moving onto the free internet, not internet denizens thinking/conspiring to get their hands on the sweet juicy content of advertisers and trying to fight their way into the advertisers domain.