The question is meaningless. In the age of BitTorrent, even making adblockers straight-up illegal wouldn't stop them and whichever underground adblocker that did what the user wants (i.e. no ads at all) would win out over any adblocker coalition agreeing to a whitelist scheme.
Whether they reduce the quality of the web or not, they are here to stay.
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The question is meaningless. In the age of BitTorrent, even making adblockers straight-up illegal wouldn't stop them and whichever underground adblocker that did what the user wants (i.e. no ads at all) would win out over any adblocker coalition agreeing to a whitelist scheme.
Whether they reduce the quality of the web or not, they are here to stay.