Ad-blocking is exactly the same thing as turning the volume off during commercial breaks.  Or perhaps turning the TV&#x2F;radio off, and then back on again afterwards might be the better analogy, since then you are not consuming the &quot;bandwidth&quot;.<p>If I wanted to hurt advertising, I&#x27;d create an extension that would fire a thousand click-throughs on their stupid ad, and vacuum up all their AdSense budget.  Get a few million people world-wide doing that, and companies would quickly realize that they are spending an even more ridiculous amount of money on advertisements, and they would stop spending.