How many presidential elections have you participated in where more than two parties received any electoral votes at all?

It's not necessarily about the average person. Depression is a bitch and different people have varying reasons for hanging on while under its weight. Just because there aren't readily available studies about what reasons people didn't commit suicide because of doesn't mean these aren't reasons. I can assure you they are. Someone's favorite show has been their only light on more than one occasion I've known personally.

Then you probably don't know who Evel Knievel is

So more Gmail than G+

Interesting choice given the way that's been shifting slowly back to the more accurate form in the past however many years.

If colloquial usage did trump all, irregardless would've been acknowledged as a correct word well before I was born. It may be the driving force but it's hardly the only, or even constantly deciding, factor

And I get the impression you weren't around for the first ad blockers. I recall it very differently and unless you have something to back up your end of it we're at a bit of an impasse.

I've been around far longer than you think.

It absolutely has bearing. It's directly related to how we consider our fellow humans.

It's also not simply a question of more money. It can absolutely be a question of any money.

Is it ethical to consume a product or service put out for sale, in one method or another, to the public without paying for it?

If a local farmer sells eggs at a farmer's market would you take one and eat it? Why or why not? Does the number of eggs he has for sale change your answer? What if others are also doing so? You did say there's nothing wrong with trying to get everything for free before, didn't you?

auto ad skipping has been a feature since at least 2002

And do you recall when the obnoxious banners and pop ups during shows started to happen with regularity?

any clearly separate banner, pop up, intermediate page etc placed around the main content

Given the above, what factors would you figure contributed to the decline of that type of ad?

I can block a banner ad

Precisely

As far as I am concerned content online is easily replaceable

I bet the people who hunted animals to extinction thought the same. At some point it stops being worth the effort to make another.

No matter what you or I do, web content will survive

See my previous statement about animal extinction

the market will evolve new ways to separate us from our money

And another like you will complain about it, block it, and the cycle continues while the masses complain about how it wasn't this bad before without an ounce of consideration to their own part in the whole thing. Wanna guess how I know?

As a question, how do you feel about data mining and tracking?

This whole paragraph looks like it's supposed to be some kind of gotcha. It's not. I've made it very clear from the start what I'm against is blocking all ads. By all means block the ones that are legitimately malicious. But I remember when the blocker in the post announced they'd be allowing non-malicious ads, which met certain published criteria, to go through the blocking. Ublock was the new darling pretty much overnight.

I do block various ads and trackers. I do not blanket block everything that could be considered an ad.

It's not a matter of locked vs unlocked. It's a matter of payment.

A website also isn't really a product. When you go to a store you see the things they want you to see. If you go to a restaurant you're greeted in the way they choose to greet you and are exposed to how they choose to decorate.

But at the core someone has to pay the bills. If you buy a product you pay for it. If you visit a website that serves ads instead of charging that's what pays those bills. If you're refusing to even see them you're handing that cost to someone else

Have you tried?

What other job do you get when your experience is tipped work? Or do you go to school to take on debt that will set you back for a long time because the education system is shot too.

IIRC he went to live among the people in the land of Nod, so probably one of them

I'm not saying you can or that you're expected to. Just like a single rain drop doesn't make a flood.

But if every rain drop got discouraged from falling because it can't make a flood all on its own we'd have been in droughts earlier and more often.

As far as likelihood, I think we've been approaching a revolution of some kind or another for a couple decades at least. It could be a violent one like the French Revolution, or a cultural one like the Industrial Revolution. Time, events, and people will make that determination, but the visible unrest with income disparity grows more obvious on a pretty regular basis.