Did you compensate the author in some way or just take their stuff then move on? What effect do you think that will have if majority also started blocking ads?

If their business model is poor, it's not up to me to compensate them by dealing with their obnoxious, psycholigically manipulative, bandwidth hogging, performance-crippling, potential malware attack vector ads.

If their business fails, it fails.

Spoken like a true pirate. I've heard people that rob stores use the same kind of logic. At least you're honest about not caring and ripping them off. I'm mainly calling out the dishonest here. ;)