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adjl posted...

I'm already pretty much the most harmful a user can be to them: I use the site and its bandwidth, but I block all of the ads and therefore generate no revenue to pay for that. I'm sure they still make something off of the various other browsing data they gather and sell, but I expect I'm still taking more than they make off of me.

I'm the same. But we're both still adding to their numbers.

When they go to advertisers and say "We have X unique user hits per day" or "We have X amount of activity on the site", that helps determine how much they charge for ads. Blocking ads will translate to how many click-throughs or views any given ad gets (which also affects ad costs), but simply by posting here at all and generating activity we're still contributing to their ability to make money.

If you really want to hurt them, not coming here at all hurts worse than being an active user who just uses adblock. Because you're both no longer directly contributing to site activity statistics, but the more people leave, the more it encourages other people to potentially leave because they no longer have anyone else to interact with.