I don't know why you have such a hard time understanding this. The case you linked to involves someone exploiting a bug in a server.
There's no bugs or exploits involved with the ad-blocking scenario. Sure, the website intends me to view the site with the ads, but what you are failing to understand is, they have no moral or legal right to tell me what I do with the bytes that they purposefully, in full awareness, sent me.
There's no bugs or exploits involved with the ad-blocking scenario. Sure, the website intends me to view the site with the ads, but what you are failing to understand is, they have no moral or legal right to tell me what I do with the bytes that they purposefully, in full awareness, sent me.