I just have no sympathy for the ad industry. I wouldn't have gotten into ad blocking if ads were non-intrusive, non-deceptive, and purely contextual. I used to even click on them more than a decade ago. But no, the ad industry wasn't satisfied with the money they were already making. They wanted to stalk you across the web and shove endless amounts of junk ads to uninterested people.

The ad industry brought the current situation on to themselves.