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Ad blocking is immoral and wrong. Loading a website with ads has an implicit agreement: I will give you my product (website content) if, in exchange, you agree
by gameshot911 8y ago
Ad blocking is immoral and wrong. Loading a website with ads has an implicit agreement: I will give you my product (website content) if, in exchange, you agree load these ads.
If you don't want to see ads on a given site, your moral option is to stop visiting the site.
Glad we finally resolved that once and for all. /s
- flyinfungi 8y agoNo it is not. It is my browser, coming into my house. Prove to me you are not doing something creepy with the data, being annoying, and providing value back in your ads and I will decide to quit blocking you.
- tombert 8y agoWhat about setting my hostfile to block sites that are known to track me? I'm not explicitly "blocking ads", just "blocking tracking", but a side-effect of this will invariably be that ads are blocked? Is it immoral?
- Green_man 8y agoAn implicit agreement isn't an agreement at all. there were no terms, was no negotiation, just an expectation projected by the website creator.