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> if you don't like websites with ads, don't use websites with ads. I don't use websites with ads! I use just the websites, without the ads. > Otherwise you'r
by einpoklum 4y ago
> if you don't like websites with ads, don't use websites with ads.
I don't use websites with ads! I use just the websites, without the ads.
> Otherwise you're breaking the agreement that the people hosting what you want to use have to make a living.
They are breaking the agreement of not filling proper content with ad junk. You know, the agreement everybody in society is implicitly part of because I believe it's the right thing to do?
> You think the people that created what you want to use are bad people, infringing on your rights, why would you still use their stuff?
That's like saying if someone published a poem with an ad slogan on the last line, I'm not supposed to skip it, because why am I using their poem without the ads.
> how we so easily deny other developers of creating free to use tools just because we think we have some moral higher ground.
Developers should definitely create free tools (to modify and redistribute, as well as to use). But they should not spoil them with ads.