[theseatoms]

I would classify Facebook and Google as advertisers themselves, but that's semantics, I guess. Point taken.

There are effectively two classes of internet citizens: those who block ads, and those who do not. Users like myself free ride off the eyeballs of this second class.

Imagine if ad-blockers were included in internet browsers by default. It would cripple the economics of the internet. (Is this the explicit reason for Chrome? Because it look like a great defensive maneuver.)