The Seattle Times depends on ad revenue to produce our news, and keep subscription rates reasonable. We ask non-subscribers to turn off ad blockers when accessing our website and mobile apps.

More users are looking past the convenience of paying to remove ads or blocking them. What prompts users to disable ad blockers and consider ads to be non-intrusive?

Some have opted to completely prevent ad-blocking users from accessing their sites or tried pleading with users to switch their ad blockers off, while others have offered access to ad-blocking ...