It&#x27;s pretty simple: If I have a website that relies on advertising to make money and the majority of people coming to my site have ad block, they will never see my ads and I won&#x27;t make money.<p>But it really only hurts the small business trying to eek out a living.  Small businesses will go under and what&#x27;s left will be large conglomerates.<p>Hacker news seems to be a popular place for people that no nothing about economics and do everything in their power to willingly give up markets to the likes of large companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.<p>The interesting part is that that then there&#x27;s outrage when the above companies abuse their monopoly...when the regulations and culture that you supported created them in the first place!