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The people writing articles at Forbes are on payroll. Ad blockers take food off their plate just to avoid a minor inconvenience. All you're doing is pushing the
by Flankk 5y ago
The people writing articles at Forbes are on payroll. Ad blockers take food off their plate just to avoid a minor inconvenience. All you're doing is pushing these companies to either go subscription only or go bankrupt. Watch the level of entitlement of the people who will inevitably try defending their content theft. They can't win the argument and they always appeal to false moral virtues. They act like targeted ads are the dawn of an Orwellian police state.
- smarx007 5y agoI only visit Forbes when someone sends me a link and 9/10 times I get disappointed when I finish the article. When many of the resources I read put up paywalls, I ended up making 2 subscriptions to resources I trust/read most. I think you are taking this in a wrong direction. The real-world analogy of what you say would be “look at all that food a person is getting for free, all they need to do is to watch ads for 1hr; watch the level of entitlement of people who watch those ads in sunglasses!” Regarding theft: I don’t agree with the use of words like theft or piracy. Nobody loses an article and nobody is held at gunpoint to give one up. If you want, call it freeloading or schwarzfahren (literally black riding, ie riding without a ticket).
- davidodio 5y agoHonestly, going full subscription or bankrupt would be fine with me. It’s the publisher’s responsibility to find a business model that works. What exactly am I stealing by blocking ads? I have no moral or ethical oblication to view them or to allow them to follow me round the web… nowhere was I asked or consented to the exchange of my personal information and resources to view their content
- sokoloff 5y agoI’m responsible for my computer’s configuration; site operators are responsible for theirs. If I configure my computer to not show me ads, that’s my choice. If they configure their computer to not show me content, that’s also their choice. If they decide to show me content even if I’m not displaying ads, that’s also on them, same as if I configured mine to show ads and was then dissatisfied with my choice.
- shukantpal 5y agoThen if they decide to fingerprint you, you should have no recourse either (other than to block it by yourself).
- sokoloff 5y agoFrom a totally practical perspective, I agree. Whatever I’m sending to a site, I can’t realistically expect that no one will ever use it.
- rfrey 5y agoAm I a victim of satire blindness? This reads to me like it's parodying arguments made by advertisers.