Perhaps if you don't want people consuming your content, maybe you shouldn't have put it up on a web server that freely takes and communicates to their requests.

Its like people forget (or just don't care about) history.

The web started off advertising free.

THEN people moved in because they thought they could use the communication medium for a business opportunity.

NOW you're telling people not to consume from the medium that YOU moved in on.

Its a ballsy position :)

> The web started off advertising free.

The web started off as a very limited network funded by universities and the military. You did not have to pay to host anything for the first several years.

Are you suggesting we return to that?

A typical newspaper article might be 2-5Kb of text you actually want, and 10Mb of Javascript and ads that you don't.

> 2Kb of extra bandwidth

Images, animations, auto-playing videos... ads are much larger than 2KB. 2KB for the network overhead alone, maybe.

Anyhow, my primary reason for blocking ads is that I seriously hate animated stuff next to text I want to read.

Okay I won't. Please give me the link to your website, so that I can blacklist it completely on my hosts file.

And to be extra nice for you, I'll go ahead and do the same on all my friends devices too, since every last one of them uses adblockers. You wouldn't want them stealing your ad supported content would you?

I'll even block your website on every firewall I get my hands on, because believe me, there are no ads going through those firewalls.

Heads I win, tails you lose.

If you don't want people "stealing" your content, put it behind a paywall and watch user numbers plummet.