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This isn't a new standard. "Don't take shit you haven't paid for" has been a standard for quite some time. Seriously, at the end of the day, why do you feel en

• icebraining 10y ago
  This is a sponsored comment, please watch this ad before reading it: http://bit.ly/1UbKM9T http://bit.ly/1UbKM9T The new standard was Doctor_Fegg's idea that people should announce in their user-agent that they are using an adblocker. In any case, nothing is being "taken". The entitlement comes from where it has always come from - one makes a request, they reply with whatever they want to serve. Payment is only a moral obligation when we have agreed to do so, otherwise we'd have to pay for every musician playing on the street, regardless of whether we enjoy their content or not. People trying to push moral obligations to prop up their flawed business models don't get my sympathy.