I'm fine with you using Adblock. I just don't want to hear complaining when companies go out of business and jobs are lost (which is happening right now due to this) or we end up with a few corporations supplying all of the content.

This does nothing but make it so small and independent websites can't make a living anymore and large corporations rule with content. It's the same with piracy. They can take the hit, the small companies can't.

All because you can't be bothered by seeing an advertisement .

Let's step back a little and think of how me looking at advertisements is supposed to be fueling the economy.

When I look at ads, I'm supposed to be given an incentive to buy something. I look at an ad in order to create a need in me that didn't exist before I viewed that ad. By creating that need, I'm supposed to go out and buy something I didn't want in the first place. What I wanted in the first place was to view something on some website, not to go out and give someone else money.

So, let's cut the middleman advertiser. I don't want to be given artificial needs and give someone else money. I want to give the original person money.

All because I can't be bothered to see an ad.

Silicon Valley (in the asbtract) should really think twice about being Madison Avenues bitch.

Just owning a website doesn't mean you are entitled to make ad revenue. If your website can't generate money in any other way then your business model should probably be changed. Make it easy to accept donations for exceptional quality for people who are willing to donate.