> Sending an HTTP request to a server is no different than walking through the door of an establishment. You don't see the "content" of the store until you walk

> Sending an HTTP request to a server is no different than walking through the door of an establishment. You don't see the "content" of the store until you walk through the door Walking through the door of an establishment also does not make the person obligated to pay for seeing the content. Anyway, anyone who knows basics about how the www technology operates and its history knows that's false analogy. Sending an HTTP request to a web server makes no promises to the owner of the web page or other data the server sends. There is no human-level contract or trade in the sense "content for ads" implied. It may be how the operation is payed for by the owner, but nobody ever asked the consumer. For contract/trade to happen, both parties need to agree on terms and willingly enter it. > is the same as deciding you don't like how the physical establishment operates, but you feel entitled to take something anyway. It is not the same. Nobody takes a thing from the owner when using adblocking software. > There is no logical difference, and you are using a completely false justification. There is a physical difference. Donuts will be missed, copies of cat pictures will be not. Eventually, even logic must give way to physics.