Not really. I never click on any ads or buy anything that’s advertised in them, so they might as well be gone. Makes no difference in my case. I don’t know what PFM is, but I’ll look into it. I’d rather pay BYC directly than have to put up with ads in my face.
This is also how Rob, the owner of this site feels about it. The adds do not pay due to you clicking on them, they pay due to you LOOKING at them or them being on the page while you look at other things.
It doesn't matter if you buy what is advertised or click on the adds, they pay for simply being on the page, but they don't pay if they are blocked by an add blocker.
Yes they do still pay and won’t know you’re blocking them if you have an ad blocker that simply doesn’t let an image display on the user end. What marketers are most freaking out about is that some blockers also block the tracking element of ads and the collection of information about your behavior. They can’t spy on you anymore. And that is more serious of an infringement on my privacy than the mere annoyance of seeing an ad. Most people who object to ads do so because they don’t want to be tracked, not just because seeing ads is annoying. If they only wanted me to look at cooked chickens, I wouldn’t care as much, but they want a whole lot more than that, and that’s just too much.
Well, not really. But no one has to deal with ads when they have a 
