We should stop calling them “ad blockers”. If a site serves up a few banner ads as images like the old days, that’s fine. I don’t object to a site paying the bills, or seeing a banner ad.

They’re malware blockers and privacy protections. I don’t want a site popping up bullshit and trying to track me across the net. If that’s what a site is serving, it’s more than an ad, and I absolutely want to block it.

@jzb I actually kind of like community-sourced banner ads on sub-culturally or fandom-oriented sites. That's a scenario where I do kind of want to be advertised to cus I wanna see what the people in a community I'm choosing to be part of are doing and have an opportunity to support it if it seems interesting.
@Owlor yup. We run some community conference “ads” on @lwn - the kind of thing that boosts events and communities we cover.