So this is an old article, on an old topic, but I was curious what hubski thought of the idea. Do you use Adblock or noscript or turn off Flash, or other anti-advertising measures? Do you leave it on regardless of what site you're on? I found this article preachy and not reflective of an actual debate over the idea, and while I do approve of getting content creators the means they need to keep creating, I'm still not sold on doing that just through advertising.
On a related note, would you still adblock if it didn't take away ad revenue? Say if Adblock removed the visual appearance of ads but still added to the site's hits? Is that any more honest or fair? There's no such thing as a free lunch, after all; aren't you just robbing the advertisers blind in that case? What role does advertisement play in a world where most people don't like ads, and would choose to get rid of them, and are now capable of doing so easily?
The Internet is changing, drastically. The old banner ad model is dead.
Planet Money recently did a story about how Andrew Sullivan is creating a paywall around his blog (or well media empire), which seems indicative of this. The internet will no longer be free, and I'm sort of okay with this, sort of saddened as well, cause I like the free Internet. I also believe that content creators need to be able to make content though, which means they need to be paid.