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Ads are speech until they are intrusive, until they track you across websites, until they violate your privacy. It's one thing to have a block of HTML dedicate
by PartiallyTyped 10mo ago
Ads are speech until they are intrusive, until they track you across websites, until they violate your privacy.
It's one thing to have a block of HTML dedicated to ads, and another to have YOUR shit running on my machine WITHOUT my consent.
- tt24 10mo agoIt is with your consent. You continue to visit these websites. If you don’t want their code running on your machine, simply don’t send a GET request.
- maest 10mo agoI assume you forgot the /s. Otherwise this is a very weak argument. Using the Internet is approximately mandatory in our current society. "Don't use the Internet" is not useful advice.
- tt24 10mo agoSounds like the risk of seeing an advertisement is probably worth the benefit of using the internet then.
- ericjmorey 10mo agoIf I buy a book, I'm not required to read any part of it. I'm allowed to control what I read.
- tt24 10mo agoYou’re allowed to use an adblocker.
- autoexec 10mo agoYou might be safe as long as the ad is on a website but stupid laws that shouldn't exist like the DMCA can make it illegal to block ads when you have to circumvent a technological measure in order to block those ads. Blocking ads and the steps needed to block them might also violate some product's EULA which could result in civil judgements against you.
- tt24 10mo ago> DMCA can make it illegal to block ads when you have to circumvent a technological measure in order to block those ads. Blocking ads and the steps needed to block them might also violate some product's EULA which could result in civil judgements against you. Your issue there is with the government. No disagreement from me in this regard :)
- autoexec 10mo agoThe problem of course isn't the fact that government and laws exist. Most of us are happy that we have government and laws. The alternative is very ugly and doesn't lend itself to progress or prosperity. The problem is that our government was allowed to be bribed/corrupted by corporate interests to pass bad laws designed to protect their profits and enforce control by taking freedom from consumers. The true villain here isn't government, government was just the tool they leveraged against us. It's supposed to be our job to insist that our government work for the interests of "we the people" and we failed. The solution now is to get rid of corrupt politicians and the bad laws they passed and replace them with good ones that preserve our freedoms and don't put corporate interest ahead of the people's. Sadly, our entire political system has been carefully refined over centuries to make it harder and harder to keep our government accountable to the people but hopefully it's not too late to change that situation within the democratic framework we've created.
- PartiallyTyped 10mo agoThat is a very weak argument. I don't have any way to decline seeing the ads before I do. I can't disable tracking by disabling js because, like a parasite, tracking software has uses what is necessary technology for websites to function.
- tt24 10mo agoSounds like to you the use of the internet is worth the risk of being tracked.