I think others are wrong in saying you should “get a real job” and crap like that, but I also feel you’re wrong in blaming Adblock.... or at least focusing your blame on it.

There’s an underlying entitlement to profit and success that I don’t like with this attitude. When the consumers change their behavior, it’s your paradigm that needs to change, not their behavior. So I get Youtube Red, but they also need to get that maybe people won’t like the change and may have backlash.

Ads on the internet are a large source of how people get infected by malicious attacks. When you visit a site like Kotaku, ads are not controlled by Gawker, but a 3rd party that Gawker contracts to handle ads. That 3rd party is responsible to make sure that the ads are free of malicious attacks but occasionally some…