Well if you block ads, you are quite literately stealing the content, because you're consuming it without paying for it. The ads are what's paying for your free content. Like, theoretical scenario. Let's say Sponsorblock+Adblock became very mainstream (they aren't, with adblocking mostl...
same as the Google ads that are shown along side this text. The software that selects the ads reads the contents of the page looking for relevant keywords to get a sense of what the page is about, and then tries to display ads that are targeted at or near that same topic. I’ve of...