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In what sense is an adblocker freeloading? They voluntarily delivered content to my device, in my home. What I do with it after that is my business and no one
by packet_nerd 8y ago
In what sense is an adblocker freeloading?
They voluntarily delivered content to my device, in my home. What I do with it after that is my business and no one else's.
It's not freeloading in any sense if I serve my breakfast cereal from mason jars instead of the box. It's not if I tear out pages I don't want to see from a book or if I dump the ad leaflet from the newspaper or credit card offers in the trash. It's not freeloading if I mute the radio during political attack ads. Why should it be any different on my computer screen?
My grandma got an iPad, and was using the calculator app to do her finances. I had a chuckle when I saw she had suck a sticky note over the ad. :-) Do you really see that as freeloading?
Its my house, my stuff, I can do with it exactly as I please, and there is absolutely no sense in which those companies have a "right" to my attention or in which I have some moral obligation to give it. To suggest otherwise sounds like a plot from a science fiction movie. I think Black Mirror had an episode like that.
- tyfon 8y agoNo it's not freeloading.. What I mean is that some sites actually provide value to me so I want to pay them back somehow, but not with ad revenue. 99% of the places I don't feel bad for "freeloading". It was probably a poor choice of a word.