> Ads really made a mess of the internet - content farms, keyword farms, most of google results are paid for, sponsored for, or came from farms. We've really gone full-circle if I have to prepend reddit or stackexchange to get something that's not crap.

This alone makes ad blocking a moral imperative. They don't really care about the internet, it's just some money making scheme to them.

> But then, if everyone did what I did, could capitalism even survive?

Aren't capitalists all about adapting to adversity? If capitalism can't survive without ads, then let it die a well-deserved death. Nobody should be putting up with advertising for the sake of it.