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Ethical Adblocking? Is adblocking a moral issue now? We're going to put it up there with assisted suicide and abortion? Is it really that life or death?
by jbob2000 11y ago
Ethical Adblocking? Is adblocking a moral issue now? We're going to put it up there with assisted suicide and abortion? Is it really that life or death?
- bediger4000 11y agoI'm a stakeholder here, so let me just say that ad blocking is NOT an ethical issue: it's my hardware, and I get to decide what to run on it or not. End of story because property rights. There's a collision coming between the Kopyright Krazies and the Anti-Ad-Blockers. They want two different things. Or maybe not, maybe there will be an alliance to eliminate control over the computers that you and I own. Anti-Ad-Blockers: your computer must run what I want it to run. Kopyright Krazies: your commputer must not run what I don't want it to run. That's a bullshit situation, by the way.
- 88e282102ae2e5b 11y ago"Ethical" doesn't always imply "extremely important". It's not ethical to cheat on a test, and it too fails the "assisted suicide and abortion" test of importance.