4 ms·

Do you feel guilty when you skip commercials on your TiVo? I don't, sorry. An ad on a page is no different than a billboard or some other passive advertising.

• sthatipamala 15y ago
  There's a slight difference. Billboards don't help support anything of value to you (namely the road you are driving on). They are advertising for the sake of advertising. Commercials on radio/TV/web fund the content you are enjoying. Of course you can flip the channel or have AdBlock or whatever, but you're actively taking revenue away from the creator. You may not have a problem with that (I certainly don't).
• bigiain 15y ago
  http://blakemccreary.com/2012/03/banksy-on-advertising-quote/ http://blakemccreary.com/2012/03/banksy-on-advertising-quote... * "You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs." -- Banksy * Just one of _many_ hits on google reproducing it, I'm not endorsing that blog in particular…