If you don't believe this is an important issue, then please consider the example of public television. The damage it has caused by denying income to advertisers has been immeasurable. Not to mention that the programs they show serve only to dull the minds of the population. Please do not block ads. My kitten thanks you for your anticipated cooperation.
ReadWriteWeb needs to die. They just copy stories word for word, add a few lines and then produce some of the worst link bait titles on the web. Zero value.
Microsoft made him wealthy. People became amazed and dazed, willing to give him more money.
Good on him for not caring. FU money. He suckered Microsoft and that's enough. He's set for life.
But it's not the hoodie, it's who's in it.
If he's rejected by investment bankers, it's not because he wore a hoodie. It's because of who he is. Wearing hoodies to meetings is but one very small part.
Now, let's be serious. If we all block ads, whic is really trivial to do, then the web would cease to be an important medium, the quality of content found through the web would drop sharply and our lives would lose the enrichment that online advertising brings. It would just be terrible. Don't block ads. A kitten is tortured everytime you do.
"We sell domain names too!"
Just one more thing they can add to their list of "services".
Does it increase security?
Just throw in some buzzwords that clients identify with security. Sold.
No one ever audits the auditor.
Maybe it increases security in the mind of the client or the end-user.
And that's enough to sell the services.