The New York Times is surveying 700,000 readers who use ad blockers

The survey consists of a dozen questions beginning with broader questions about the user’s ad blocking habits before narrowing to questions specifically about the Times’ website, including if they would consider whitelisting The Times, ranking the most bothersome type of Internet ads and guilting them with questions like: “Are you aware that blocking ads on the website prevents The New York Times from making money to supports it operations?”

Here’s a sampling of the questions:

The survey is only the latest move in the Times’ public stance against ad blockers. In March, it began showing some ad blocker users a pop-up asking to be whitelisted or buy a digital subscription, issuing this statement:

“We are opposed to ad blocking, which does not serve the long term interest of consumers. The creation of quality news content is expensive and digital advertising is one way that The New York Times and other high quality news providers fund news gathering operations.”

Digital subscribers continue to grow for the Times, but digital ad revenue dropped 1 percent to $42 million, a figure that only encompasses about a third of its total ad revenue, according to the paper’s earnings report for the first quarter of 2016.