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If you go to a restaurant and order a salad, you're not obligated to eat the olives, and you have the right to take them off your plate. Likewise, you have the
by claroscuro 9y ago
If you go to a restaurant and order a salad, you're not obligated to eat the olives, and you have the right to take them off your plate.
Likewise, you have the right to bring an intermediary who looks at your salad and hides all the olives for you.
If your intermediary happens to work for Green Olive Co. and he hides the black olives but not the green ones, you have the right to switch to another intermediary. Or get another intermediary who checks the plate and hides the rest of the olives. Or do whatever you want, because you're not obligated to consume any part of the salad that you don't want to.
- koolba 9y agoIn your metaphor the salad is filled on your plate by you running back and forth to a salad bar to grab the ingredients one by one. Those of us with ad blockers don't bother fetching the olives at all.
- sixstringtheory 9y agoSure, but in your example, you've paid for the salad. The whole reason (presumably) that advertising has gotten in the state it's in is that nobody wants to pay for things, but it costs money to keep the lights on. Full disclaimer: I use things for free day in and day out. I try to pay for things that I find value in as my budget allows. I find many ads annoying.
- claroscuro 9y agoYeah, I see how my analogy fails now. I still don't think there is a moral right or wrong with AdBlockers. Web sites are text--how you choose to render them is (or should be) up to you, in my opinion.
- slig 9y agoThere's no free salad. The restaurant owner is not obligated to give you a salad, with or without olives.
- mehwoot 9y agoIf you go to a restaurant and order a salad Sure, if you're blocking ads on a platform where you paid a subscription I'd agree with you.