I'll whitelist the day the adds aren't obnoxious and the day that this doesn't mean I also have to allow 20 different scripts to run in the background and thus slow down my page loading time never mind what sort of sneaky malware any of those twenty scripts may have. Because whitelisting doesn't just allow ads, you also have loads of trackers.
Also, it would be really nice if blocking scripts didn't also make the site glitch out and constantly double-reload for me. The site's running shouldn't be dependent on you guys selling space to pixel trackers :c.
I can say that even as I type this response adblock has three things blocked and ghostery is blocking two ads, two analytics, and the facebook widget (which also tracks your internet activity and reports it to FB so they can show you curated ads).
I have some places whitelisted even if that does open things up to trackers, because I want to support the creators. The fact that when I tried unblocking ads here suddenly we were in the double digits of various scripts/trackers/beacons/pixels/video ads all running... Not cool.