Been seeing a spate of stories like this recently.
This tells me the waters are being prepared, efforts are being made, to start a push to legally sanction ad blocking tools, and to get them banned from sites like the Mozilla add-on site and others.
Guaranteed this will happen. Blocking ads will be conflated with “piracy” and called theft.
Just a matter of time.
They can take away my modified /etc/hosts out of my cold, dead hands. But yeah, utterly sucks that the regular user won’t have access to a simple solution anymore.