> If ABP is blocking all ads for me, why would I care about a conflict of interest?
You might not care, but if you are recommending others an extension to use for blocking ads, you cannot do it solely on your own preferences.
Imagine being recommended as alternatives an adblocker that you can install and forget or an adblocker that you need to configure and keep on watch in case it starts showing ads anyway. Having no experience with adblockers before, which one would you choose?
This hasn't happened with ABP, and could conceivably happen with any ad blocker, even one whose developers are saints (due to a bug).
Basically "might happen" is just FUD.
Reminds me of 1990's anti-Linux FUD. Don't use that, it might not support some sound card or video card you might want to buy later, even though it works now! You might run into a problem that needs support and then you're screwed. Etc.
So this discussion has devolved to the point of cutting out words from sentences to change their meaning and using the new sentence as a straw man. Here we go again HN.
You might not care, but if you are recommending others an extension to use for blocking ads, you cannot do it solely on your own preferences.
Imagine being recommended as alternatives an adblocker that you can install and forget or an adblocker that you need to configure and keep on watch in case it starts showing ads anyway. Having no experience with adblockers before, which one would you choose?