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.

   Bitcoin: bc1qmplgt0hcg62jc2guz86wn2sms7tqrsulkkrrls
   Ethereum: 0xE7983E69df17079ADb0aD7b3458488Cac0dBc573
   TRON: TW4AgGnDc2Pk6YAynCtjCKzoKYWPg7nJe (?)

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

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

Ad blockers at dns level too, not just browsers. A lot of people don’t even know how to block them, check your parents or kids (or non technical people in general) phone and you will see how they are riddled with ads. I had a dns blocker installed on my parents phones and in around 6hrs it blocked 10k queries from 3 apps only..