Reading all this about the Adblock/NoScript saga has made me curious. Mozilla shows only 7 million active users (of perhaps 250 million Firefox users), but I bet they skew very heavily toward the "power user" crowd.
But I'm getitng more into Privoxy as I can use it with Chrome / Opera / I.E / and one day my phone when Opera Mini / Chrome allows proxies!<p>And it's not because of the existence of ads but their flashing / attention grabbing nature. I've bought stuff from ads - website t-shirts mainly and stuff from thinkgeek when slashdot ran an ad.<p>I also contribute to <a href="http://dfm.nu/" rel="nofollow">http://dfm.nu/</a> through their paypal donation link. I'm not trying to sound like a hero just say that I'm not an habitual freeloader. Every website should have a "buy our merchandise" link :)