[Kim_Bruning]

This is not true, sites did just fine before the advent of ads, and were actually useful. Some kinds of advertising online aren't even obnoxious, and that's fine too. For the obnoxious stuff? We can mostly do without. If we drive them to bankruptcy even faster with adblocking, all the better! ;-)

[Killswitch]

Have you ever wondered what YouTube's bill is monthly just to give you that content for free?

I come from a group of people who run some of the biggest video based sites online, yes people want to watch these stupid videos for free, hundreds of thousands of daily visitors... One guy I know pays $1500/mo just to give stupid 30 second clips to his visitors with nothing but a few ads on the site to support it. No ads? Say bye to these sites, because nobody is gonna work a full time job to give you 30 second cat videos with no compensation at all.

[greenyoda]

If all the cat videos were to disappear tomorrow, I suspect that most of the 7 billion inhabitants of this planet would somehow manage to fill the gaping voids in their lives with other stupid things.