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You click on a link that you know has advertising 2) The site tells you, "hey, we see that you run adblock. If you want to consume our content you have to disa
by TheLogothete 10y ago
You click on a link that you know has advertising
2) The site tells you, "hey, we see that you run adblock. If you want to consume our content you have to disable that. If you don't want to disable your adblock, bye."
3)You still go ahead to consume the content.
In what universe this is OK?
- ultramancool 10y agoIn a universe where their server still gives you the content.
- TheLogothete 10y agoIf a door is open but has a sign "do not enter" above it, should you enter?
- ultramancool 10y agoIf what I want is inside, yes, always.
- TheLogothete 10y agoSelf-entitlement. Google it.
- ultramancool 10y agoYeah - I'm very entitled to my own computer and I'll use it as I damn well please. Would you expect me to have any other attitude towards my own hardware?
- TheLogothete 10y agoYou are not entitled to other people's computers.
- ultramancool 10y agoYup, that's completely correct. No argument there.
- TheLogothete 10y agoThen why do you access their computers when they have explicitly said they don't want you to? Even further, you circumvent a system they have put in place to stop you from accessing their property.
- ultramancool 10y agoBecause they gave it to me and I just decided how to render it locally on my own computer? There was no unauthorized access as you're suggesting. Blame their server I guess. I'm only working with what they give me.
- TheLogothete 10y agoYou are straight out denying the reality. They didn't give it to you. They put a wall and said "You cannot pass this wall with adblock turned on". You decided to circumvent it. Because...?
- ultramancool 10y agoYou need to look at where the code executes in reality. Their "wall" as you describe it is actually just client-side code which runs on _my_ computer, not theirs, so I get to decide how it executes. It would be completely different if the "wall" was on the server side of course (for example, a paywall). If it's on my computer, it's under my control. Just because it came from their server does not mean it has any rights on my computer at all. They're not entitled to my computer.
- TheLogothete 10y agoYou are fetching their property and do not respect their rules. No matter how much you squirm and squeeze, this is objectively not OK to do.