I think this might be more important than any other point in the thread the more I think on it - more important than complicity in advertising, or in wasting energy, is that blocking ads removes a piece's context which limits how you can interpret the piece.
I think the compromise is still the same: adblockers that replace the ads with obtrusive but non-marketing visual noise, so readers cannot ignore that advertising is a factor, though what ads are obfuscated.