That doesn't absolve the first sentence that attempts to frame adblocking as theft. This is playing into the propaganda from companies like Google that are attempting to ahistorically distort the social contract by asserting that they control the content that is displayed on my screen, which is not how the web works or has ever worked. It's not "stealing", "freeloading", "privateering", it's a public resource that companies have imposed themselves upon and are now attempting to assert ownership of.