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I wouldn't respect it. Because they publish a free content, and are taking advantage of many other Internet services, which provides them with free marketing -

by greyman 12y ago

I wouldn't respect it. Because they publish a free content, and are taking advantage of many other Internet services, which provides them with free marketing - search engines, aggregators, social sites, etc. I can download their content and then display any subset I want - that is how WWW works. If they want to prevent me doing that, they should implement a pay-wall.

vdaniuk 12y ago
I believe that you and anyone else should not have moral reservations to visit any site with an adblocker even if they request you not to do that. >free marketing - search engines, aggregators, social sites But, judging from this quote you don't know what you are talking about. Search engines and social network traffic is anything but free in any category that has significant competition.
jbigelow76 12y ago
"Free marketing", doesn't make the creation of the content effortless. If you found an interesting article via Google or Twitter, (ostensibly) "free" marketing channels, does that mean the article magically popped into existence or did the journalist/content creator still have to put in time and effort to create it.