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I call bullshit. We are force-fed advertisement on the way to work, to vacation, and while browsing the web. Your primitive reptilian brain has been sold to the
by Zelmor 11y ago
I call bullshit. We are force-fed advertisement on the way to work, to vacation, and while browsing the web. Your primitive reptilian brain has been sold to the highest bidder.
What right do these corporations have to manipulate people into buying things, making them feel incomplete for they do not have the abs, the breasts, and phones and the shoes that the sexy models of these ad boards have? Burn them all, I say.
Too bad nobody campaigns for elections with stating they will get rid of all and every advertisement not closely tied to a local or nearby business.
- ikeboy 11y agoI did not suggest that corporations have a right to advertise. I suggested that you don't have a right to consume content while blocking ads within, and if you don't want those ads, you shouldn't view the page.
- Zelmor 11y agoYour failing monetization strategy is none of my concern. Run a Patreon or allow me to donate once every while instead of potentially hurting me psychologically. If you hold the opinion that i have no right to your ccontent without paying, use a paywall or similar. But your suggestion that I have no right to something is utter hogwash. Where are your basis for such claims? Where have I signed anything regarding this? People calling out others and saying that another person has no right to this and that is nothing but forceful catering. You see others live happily and call them out on it. Go live in the pit of your misery if you will, but cease telling others what they can or cannot do.
- ikeboy 11y ago>Where have I signed anything regarding this? By accessing and continuing to access a website, you agree to their terms.
- pdkl95 11y agoHTTP is not a contract; there are no "terms".
- ikeboy 11y agoBy the same logic, hacking is just sending bytes over a network, so it can't be illegal. Unfortunately for you, the law is smarter than that.
- Touche 11y agoAn HTTP request is not hacking. It's a GET followed by a 200 OK. The server has the option to redirect to a paywall, or respond with 403 Forbidden, or do any number of things. That they are responding with 200 is not a bug that we're exploiting maliciously.
- ikeboy 11y agoExploiting a server that exposes a root console by mistake would also be fine under the same logic. You haven't given any principled distinction between the two.
- Touche 11y agoYes, I have, one is intentional and the other is not.
- ikeboy 11y agoBy installing an adblocker, you're intentionally blocking access. Is your argument that you didn't realize the website didn't allow it? You think that will hold up in court?
- walterstucco 11y agoyes it will. that's why no ad company has ever sued people blocking ads. it would be a very bad advertising...