Your thoughts about advertising are very surprising to me. If I use an ad blocker, it has zero to do with me thinking advertising is “wrong” and everything to

Your thoughts about advertising are very surprising to me. If I use an ad blocker, it has zero to do with me thinking advertising is “wrong” and everything to do with me thinking they’re an annoyance that I understand the business purpose of, but given the proper tools, I can opt out of having to experience them. It’s actually a completely un-nuanced decision that avoids any sort of judgment about the goodness or badness of advertising. In fact, it probably would be better to say that I acknowledge that advertising actually helps me by funding some things I use while I can sidestep the negatives, making ad blocking fundamentally hypocritical. If I truly thought ad-driven business models were bad and wanted to demonstrate that on moral grounds, shouldn’t I also stop patronizing businesses that are entirely based on them?