I wouldn't want any browser to have built-in ad blocking. The best situation from my point of view is if majority of users gets to see the ads, while I don't. Who's going to pay for ads anymore if browsers come with adblocking by default?
"Who's going to pay for ads anymore if browsers come with adblocking by default?"
Why is this my problem? Nobody pays for buggy whips any more because we don't use horse and buggies. Times move on.
Apologies for sounding flip. I understand lots of folks have business models based on ads. This is most unfortunate, but it's no reason to screw over the consumer and not give them something they want simply because other people get paid money for it.
The consumer that wants ad-blocking already downloads an ad-blocker and gets exactly what they want. Making ad-blocking the default option for a mainstream browser means that people who don't dislike ads sufficiently to find a plugin that blocks them no longer subsidise the web for those that do.
It's your problem when you start encountering paywalls where previously only [blocked] ads existed.
