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People have a right to use ad-blockers. It's their computer after all. However, a lot of things that people like to use, and might even have been willing to w
by yetanotherphd 13y ago
People have a right to use ad-blockers. It's their computer after all.
However, a lot of things that people like to use, and might even have been willing to watch ads in order to use, will not be viable if everyone used adblockers.
It's really that simple. However, most people don't like to acknowledge that given the opportunity, the will freeload of others, or that in some contexts freeloading is natural and not immoral
- radmuzom 13y agoI don't think the original article or people who despise Ad blocking software (like me) question the right of people to use ad-blockers. All we are saying is that economics and free markets will eventually take care of the problem, and will result in much lesser useful content being created for people to consume. If one thinks that lesser content is better and the only ones allowed to publish content are big budget companies like Google who can afford to pay Adblock developers to be in the whitelist, then so be it.