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I would respect the Adblock crowd more if they didn’t run around describing their actions as brave or “morally responsible.” It’s ok to admit that you’re taking

• kmbfjr 6y ago
  As if you have never run to the bathroom during a commercial break. No one is under any obligation to accept advertising. Only since the modern web have advertisers and content providers made this an argument on ethics.
  • lupire 6y ago
    You're under no obligation to visit a site without sending a payment either.
    • sebastien_b 6y ago
      And websites are under no obligation to serve up pages without prior payment from visitors. We could all go around in circles like this for hours.
• kelnos 6y ago
  Oh, please. Tell me you've never fast-fowarded or muted the TV or changed channels during a commercial. Tell me you've never been reading the newspaper or a magazine and skipped reading the ads. I'm not really sure what crowd of us you think claims that ad-blocking is "morally responsible". I certainly don't see it as a moral issue at all. I just don't want so see ads, period. I think they're psychologically manipulative garbage, and I don't want them in front of my eyes, infecting my brain. If someone wants to publish something behind a paywall, I'll pay if I think it's worth the price. If someone wants to put up an ad-blocker-blocker and refuse to serve that content to me, that's fine too; I'll live without their content. If a server is going to send me bits over the wire, I am going to decide how I view those bits, and which bits I do and do not want to see.