I feel like I've had a chance to be on both sides of this issue. I hate visiting a site and having the page jump around a bunch while all the ads load. And then dodge the ads. I also pay a lot for advertising. I get that it sucks for every body. I have sympathy for NYT. This stuff doesn't get written for free. I don't have any ideas to contribute yet but they aren't wrong to need to put their foot down and readers aren't wrong to want an alternative. It's a weird time for the net.
His "AdBlock is evil" rhetoric isn't going to sell a single Times subscription. I'm a NYT subscriber and their jumpy, slow-loading pages irritate the hell out of me. Fix your product, Mr. Thompson, not your customers.