Ad Blocking Under Attack

I just read this at The Blog Herald:

Apparently this guy named Danny Carlton blocks Firefox users from reading his website, because of the AdblockPlus plugin. His reasons for that include:
“Software that blocks all advertisement is an infringement of the rights of web site owners and developers. ”

LOL

I have seldom heard such crap. I am not not looking at, much less clicking on any ads in blogs anyway as a matter of principle. So, what difference does it make for the blogger if I actually have the ads displayed in my browser or not?
And to block all users of Firefox, even if most of them have never heard of the AdBlock plugin, seems a mite contraproductive to me. But hey, if he can afford the loss of traffic… I’m not complaining, because his site doesn’t look like I’d be interested anyway.
It seems there is a widespread discussion going on about this ad-blocking business. Sounds like a storm in a waterglass to me, but maybe you’d like to read some further articles about it:

Stop stealing my content!
Blocking adverts might cost you money
Are readers obligated to appreciate bloggers?
Ad blocking from a reader’s perspective