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Denying profit to corporations is theft, so using adblockers will be put on the same level as digital piracy. How dare you consume content without letting your eyeballs get force-fed ads.
Using ad blockers is piracy, insofar as you're avoiding paying the price the content provider has set for that content. The price is watching the ads, rather than being something directly monetary, and you're not paying it.
That said, neither that nor piracy are theft, and in both cases I gladly pirate because the prices in most instances have gotten away too high for what you get. Either in terms of subscription cost, or the time and quantity of ads delivered.
You're not wrong, it's kinda like going to McDonald's or Starbucks just to use the free WiFi — yeah you're consuming some of their resources which are intended for paying customers, but as long as you're not a dick about it and hang out for hours during the prime lunch or dinner rush, your presence is costing them nothing extra, or at least not enough to warrant them doing something about it.
I understand that companies are worried about losing business if too many people catch on to adblocking, but the irony is that the more they cry about it, the more people will realize that that was even an option at all (i.e. the infamous Streisand effect will strike again).