While Internet advertising sustains basically all the content users view online, it’s also this “terrible nuisance baked into everything you do online,” writes Farhad Manjoo for The New York Times. But now, more and more users are installing ad blockers to avoid the “daily bombardment of online advertising,” the report states. And that activity has spurred debates on the ethics of ad blocking, with some publishers and advertisers saying the practice violates “the implicit contract that girds the Internet—the idea that in return for free content, we all tolerate a constant barrage of ads.” (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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