Now there&#x27;s a more honest answer and approach. I agree with you on how annoying they&#x27;re getting. Far as paid vs unpaid, the question is are you blocking ads only from sources you&#x27;re paying or also ads that are paying for content you aren&#x27;t paying for? I&#x27;d bet it&#x27;s still piracy partly or mostly.<p>To be clear, I block them too for their annoyance and malware risks they pose. I push for solutions to that (eg Adblock&#x27;s Acceptable Ads, ADsafe). Well, some like Youtube I let through because they&#x27;re easy enough to ignore (esp with mute button). Amazon and eBay have those, too. On rare occasions, it&#x27;s actually something I&#x27;m interested in. The rest are blocked by default. And you won&#x27;t catch me lying about essentially ripping them off until they ditch their annoying, dangerous BS in favor of acceptable ads or option to pay.<p>Note: One thing I miss about late 90&#x27;s and early 2000&#x27;s Internet is that there were tons of good subscription, services plus &quot;all on a CD&quot; paid content. Our modern stuff is more fun and diverse for sure but innovative efforts like Patreon show there&#x27;s room for improvement in ads vs paid.