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Sorry, but that's crap. I have the absolute right to request data from other websites. If they choose to send me that data, that's their decision. If they ch
by Grishnakh 11y ago
Sorry, but that's crap. I have the absolute right to request data from other websites. If they choose to send me that data, that's their decision. If they choose to include ads, that's also their right, but I in turn have the right to ignore or block those ads and not run that Javascript on my computer.
If they don't like this, they don't have to send the content to me. If they want to try to make it difficult for me to see the content without also seeing the ads, they have that right. I have the right to take extra measures to block the ads anyway and still view the content.
Again, if they don't like this, they don't have to send the content to me at all. If they really want to make sure I view the ads, they are perfectly within their rights to only show ads first, and then make me take a test to ensure I looked at the ads and understood them and remembered things about them, and only then show me the content after having proved I viewed their ads and paid close attention to them.
They could also devise measures to detect ad-blocking, and then block my IP address from viewing content in the future until I pay a fee or prove that I've viewed ads as above.
As long as websites willingly send me content, I have every right to view it, however I choose to, and I do not care what a bunch of pro-advertising moralists in discussion forums think about it, and I utterly reject their insane idea that some unwritten contract exists that somehow requires me to not view content without viewing ads.
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