There was an article at Salon.com just yesterday about ad-blockers and their effect on the online advertising industry:
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/02/the_...m_advertising/
From the article:
"Faida is not shy about the club that Adblock Plus wields.
?I think we have come to a point where we have so many users,? says Faida, ?that blocking all ads would be destructive to the Internet.?