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>It is moral and ethical to block all ads and scripts from adtech companies. Depends on your moral code, I think? Who made you a moral authority? You don't get

>It is moral and ethical to block all ads and scripts from adtech companies. Depends on your moral code, I think? Who made you a moral authority? You don't get a say in what I consider moral. I'm sorry for the aggressive tone of my post, but people telling me what I should think are a pet peeve of mine.

thefurdrake 3y ago
> Depends on your moral code, I think? Who made you a moral authority? You don't get a say in what I consider moral. I don't care what you consider moral. If you don't like it, you can do as you please. I would have thought that would have been obvious, since this is the internet and the only control over you I have is through text on the screen. Repeating this is tiresome; take your aggressiveness and peevishness elsewhere, because I'm about as obligated to care about them as you are to consider what I say moral. You're not sorry, so you shouldn't say so, which is a pet peeve of MINE.
ravenstine 3y ago
What you are saying is paradoxical. Morality necessarily comes from authority. Otherwise, it's nothing but a preference or a fashion. Everyone may have a different view of morality, but the whole point of morality is objective, if it is to have any comprehensible definition. Hence it is correct to state one's morality with authority if one truly believes it.
- l33t7332273 3y ago
  > Morality necessarily comes from authority That’s not true at all > Otherwise, it's nothing but a preference or a fashion Morality is definitely a stronger belief than a mere preference, but it’s still subjective. > the whole point of morality is objective, if it is to have any comprehensible definition I don’t understand where you’re coming from here. Morality has nothing to do with objectivity.
smegger001 3y ago
If the ads were nothing but a picture/plain text with refer link it might be possible to argue that their payments to the websites are need to fund them and blocking was simply an issue of denying revenue. But this is unvetted third party code that is often malicious and could infect your computer enable identity fraud steal your data, encryption your documents and extort bitcoins to get your family photos back, not to mention the supposedly benign ad tracking code that enables mega corps to stalk you around the web and in some cases track your actually physical location and sell that data at a surprisingly low rate to anyone that asks for it. Sorry but no. Not using a ad blocker on the open web is like not using a condom when hooking up. Sure it may feel better not to but the risk are to high.

thefurdrake 3y ago

> Depends on your moral code, I think? Who made you a moral authority? You don't get a say in what I consider moral. I don't care what you consider moral. If you don't like it, you can do as you please. I would have thought that would have been obvious, since this is the internet and the only control over you I have is through text on the screen. Repeating this is tiresome; take your aggressiveness and peevishness elsewhere, because I'm about as obligated to care about them as you are to consider what I say moral. You're not sorry, so you shouldn't say so, which is a pet peeve of MINE.

ravenstine 3y ago

What you are saying is paradoxical. Morality necessarily comes from authority. Otherwise, it's nothing but a preference or a fashion. Everyone may have a different view of morality, but the whole point of morality is objective, if it is to have any comprehensible definition. Hence it is correct to state one's morality with authority if one truly believes it.

l33t7332273 3y ago
> Morality necessarily comes from authority That’s not true at all > Otherwise, it's nothing but a preference or a fashion Morality is definitely a stronger belief than a mere preference, but it’s still subjective. > the whole point of morality is objective, if it is to have any comprehensible definition I don’t understand where you’re coming from here. Morality has nothing to do with objectivity.

smegger001 3y ago

If the ads were nothing but a picture/plain text with refer link it might be possible to argue that their payments to the websites are need to fund them and blocking was simply an issue of denying revenue. But this is unvetted third party code that is often malicious and could infect your computer enable identity fraud steal your data, encryption your documents and extort bitcoins to get your family photos back, not to mention the supposedly benign ad tracking code that enables mega corps to stalk you around the web and in some cases track your actually physical location and sell that data at a surprisingly low rate to anyone that asks for it. Sorry but no. Not using a ad blocker on the open web is like not using a condom when hooking up. Sure it may feel better not to but the risk are to high.