I have a feeling everyone with understanding of the situation or even a vague malaise opening a news article and being bombarded with popups that intercept their attention knows why ad blockers are needed, and any perceived "discourse" to the contrary is one sided, from the ad agencies and media platforms that largely and subversively direct the narrative.

It's getting harder by the day to tell sentiment apart from narrative.

Are the crypto addresses known/recorded anywhere? would be interesting to see on the blockchain how much was stolen this way.

Probably should just link to the security researcher's post, since it's far more informative:

https://doublepulsar.com/adform-compromised-to-serve-crypto-...