Ah I was speaking ethically, not legally. Of course, adblocking isn't illegal and piracy nominally is. As mentioned in the sibling comment, this argument-by-ex

Ah I was speaking ethically, not legally. Of course, adblocking isn't illegal and piracy nominally is. As mentioned in the sibling comment, this argument-by-example is trivially extensible to piracy. "It's not unethical to watch media at a friend's house. Piracy is just using a machine to do this via a digital encoding instead of an analog one"