I'm not pissed about the anti ad-block. I'm pissed because the sites show up when I'm searching in the first place. I'm pissed because I go to the site thinking I can get the information I was teased with in my search only to find out I've been tricked. I'm forced to do something (unblock the ads), accept some fake implicit agreement (you agree to look at our ads), and be spied on (all the trackers) before I can get to the content I was lead to believe was there.

The fix is to remove all blocked content from the search so we won't even know it exists in the first place. We won't get upset, we won't get blocked, the sites won't get content "stolen" by those who won't view or click the ads to being with. Everybody's happy. Win Win.

Well I would agree, but ahem popups, popunders, sound, retargeting, tracking, simulated download buttons, simulated anti-virus messages, animations, sound, maximise on rollover, sound (sound there multiple times intentionally :p)

Now then, an industry that resorts to every underhand trick they can think of is not doing much to have my sympathy.

If I could visit a site with ADS, and just ads, without any tracking, retargeting or other trickery I'd gladly have the ads for that site on permanently. By the same token I wouldn't even mind seeing ads on the sites I actually paid for if they were locally hosted and tracking free.

> Note in print days, you still pay your subscription, yet you get shit loads of ads

How many print ads had sound, retargeting, tracking or dropped malware? Comparing apples and oranges here.

Oh no, just to make the internet usable I need to block >50% of the domains a page tries to load. So to turn on ads I need to figure out which of the 20 blocked domains and 10 blocked scripts will let ads through. But tracking and retargeting gets enabled when you do that. Fuck that.

Simple ads, no tracking. It's not hard.