I don't have an issue with piracy at all, but I think that calling ad-blocking piracy is completely incorrect. I have a subscription to a number of news sites.

I don't have an issue with piracy at all, but I think that calling ad-blocking piracy is completely incorrect. I have a subscription to a number of news sites. I actually pay for their content. My ad-blocker still blocks a bunch of banners, trackers, and various other bits and bobs. In the real world there are advertising banners outside my house. If I were able to block them, what exactly would I be 'pirating'? The skyline? The roads I already pay my local authority and national government for? Adblocking isn't even always about monetary stuff. At some point in 2020 I installed a machine for a friend. On the first load of the browser I checked a news site. It had propaganda banners in the ad slots paid for by HM Gov about COVID-19 along both sides and the bottom of the screen in massive fonts telling me that I'm banned from going outside or whatever. I don't need that stuff following me around either as it's obviously an attempt to manipulate my psyche. I use the Internet to learn things, not to be shouted at. If I weren't able to use an adblocker then I'd limit my Internet use to only "old-web" style sites like HN. If that became impossible, I'd go back to books and encyclopedias, advertising is proletarian bollocks for weak minds, the more you remove it the better you are as a person because you are more in control of your own emotions.