There are many contrived examples here about closing eyes and refusing to eat lettuce, but why not take one directly from software? Let's say I publish code on

There are many contrived examples here about closing eyes and refusing to eat lettuce, but why not take one directly from software? Let's say I publish code on the internet and put praise to my coding skills in the comments. A publisher publishes an article with ads. You read the article with ads removed, and take my code to use in your closed-source commercial product, ripping out the comments. So far so good. Now let's say instead I publish my code under GPL. And the publisher puts a big disclaimer on the website that you must turn off ad-blocker to view content. Is it still ethical to block ads and ignore the disclaimer? Note I'm saying "ethical", not "legal". How is that any different from ignoring the LICENSE file and profiting from the GPL code in a closed-source commercial product? Mental gymnastics about what is "really a contract" aside. To be sure, I block ads, but like other such things, e.g. speeding, I recognize it's a moral compromise I make with myself.