Last month Steve Souders touched on ad blockers:
Use of ad blockers is way up. (AD AGENCIES: If ads weren't so slow, fewer people would use ad blockers!)http://t.co/qBbiDZvWGv
— Steve Souders (@Souders) June 8, 2015
This exactly describes me. I resisted the temptation to use an ad blocker until a few years ago when one of the local news sites was essentially unusable because the ads were crushing it on every page load.
I’d rather not be using an ad blocker. I have no problem with sites running a few reasonable ads. Unfortunately the ad war has gotten to the point that many sites become useless when viewed with ads. That drove me, reluctantly, into the arms of ad blocker plugins.