I strongly oppose this add-on. It may make your browsing a bit more enjoyable on a selfish level... but it hurts the sites you visit. Sure, it's easy to not care about mega-sites run by multi-million dollar corporations where your impact is below negligible, however what about the thousands of small sites you visit everyday that depend on that advertising revenue to keep their site online?

Desktop Nexus is a very expensive site to run because the large wallpaper downloads cause very steep bandwidth bills. Our site is 100% paid for by advertising, and anyone who visits Desktop Nexus using AdBlock Plus costs us money. In my opinion these users are just leeches. Some people might speak up and say "oh, but I added your site to my whitelist to support you", and while that's appreciated, I still feel for the thousands of other sites you visit that are not whitelisted. And if you go around whitelisting every site you enjoy, at what point does that add-on become meaningless and you'd be better off without it at all?

Another fallacious point people bring up is "ads will give me viruses". While I'm sure this is true from time to time, most major ad networks (Google Adsense, Tribal Fusion, etc.) are extremely careful about the advertisements they show, and any malicious ads are quickly removed. The entire basis of a company as large as Google depends on the integrity of their advertisements, so you can be assured they do everything in their power to maintain a trustworthy reputation. Desktop Nexus only serves ads from top-tier networks like these.

I understand how that add-on reached it's monumental popularity, but I do wish people would realize the damage they're doing with it. Adblock Plus is incredibly selfish and hurts the sites that you enjoy.