Buford - 9:09 pm on Aug 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

but only on the net can they be blocked and let the CONSUMER, not the publisher, control the content of the page!

That's one of the advantages of it. No longer is the viewer locked into seeing content the way the designer wants them to see it. Far from being detrimental, this allows better flow of information as browsers can use all sorts of tricks to make the useful content easier to read and cut the crap that some designers shove on their pages.

Yes, I use AdSense. Honestly, I make diddly squat from it. However, I support ad blockers because it is the end user who does and should have control over how they see the content on their screen, and some advertising is downright annoying. Throwing all sorts of Javascript crap in a page to cripple it for non-JS enabled browsers is only shooting yourself in the foot as it breaks accessibility and decent browsers (Firefox, for example) have the ability - either built in or as an extension - to selectively block some JavaScript without outright turning it all off. Making your content hard to access is a good way to alienate your audience and they'll simply go elsewhere or work around your attempts to cripple it.