You mean... like Linux has been killed by RHEL?
You're still the leech. They are providing a service, which is being paid for by advertising. If it bothers you so much, don't use the service.
You display a typical arrogant attitude of many webmasters, who fail to realize that they deal not with some "traffic" or "hits". You deal with human beings. An offline business has very strict rules about being polite to customers - but webmasters still have a weird idea that screaming at your customers "LOOK! you've GOT to watch HERE! and now HERE!" constantly while they are at your territory is the best business plan ever. Who the hell would behave like that in their shop?
You don't get to say "oh stopping to buy a ticket slows me down and get in the say so I'm just going to jump over the turnstile" when you're getting in the subway. The same thing applies to ad supported websites.
Wait... you're not asking them to buy tickets before they enter - no, that would be too honest. You're actively pursuing them. You're doing you best to attract them to your site. You probably deprive other sites of search engine ranks in the process. And then you throw at your readers a bunch of flashy banners, tons of distracting underlined text in different colors (because they look like links and draw attention) and wonder why they protect their sanity and peace of mind? Try communicating to them and be polite - for a start.
So if a resource owner fails to monetize the traffic he generated - it's a fault of a customer now? Next step - you're blaming shop visitors for not buying anything, soiling your floor and just leeching you of money you paid to cleaners.
Monetizing traffic is a hard job. If you fail at it - it probably means you should go find another one
No, you're just a leech.
If I ever dare disabling AdBlock+ in my browser, I'll have problems with page load times (=my time) + it will be much harder to concentrate on the content in a presence of distracting animations and other crap (=my productivity). On the road it will also lead to increased bandwidth bill (=my money) and shorter battery life (=productivity)
Who is the leech now?
...It does have ad block. Built in. Right click, block content. That take too long?
Yes, if you value your time. With AdBlock+ I don't need to click/block etc. It's already blocked, and the list is always up-to date. My custom block list in AdBlock+ is about 5 lines.
And use css to remove the whitespace
Or just build your own site...
Probably the best bet is to copy it from visiting aliens, if any ever bother to visit.
And the first interstellar traveler will be a lawyer - traveling to the alien court on their planet as a defendant's attorney in patent infringement lawsuit.
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
