Nothing is ever “free”, most of the stuff on the internet is delivered to you with the “payment” of serving you ads.
It’s totally within your right to ignore the ads on your screen as long as it is served out it’s OK, but if you stop ads from ever coming through you’ve just gotten access to the stuff you wanted and no “payment” (ad) has been served.
I consider that to be a form of piracy. I’m not saying it’s always unethical, I would say having a browser adblocker is necessary because of all the bad garbage out there. I run UBlock Origin and PiHole on my devices so I can not see any ads at all and I consider that piracy in my case.
I know alot of people would disagree, piracy may not be the right word but I think it’s important to think about it.
I’m sure you are trying to equate blocking of ads to cutting off their income stream or something, but it isn’t anything like that. It is just not displaying something that would be ignored anyway with the added bonus of not letting the advertisers collect metadata on you without your permission. Blocking ads is comparable to not looking at billboards, but even better!
Nothing is ever “free”, most of the stuff on the internet is delivered to you with the “payment” of serving you ads. It’s totally within your right to ignore the ads on your screen as long as it is served out it’s OK, but if you stop ads from ever coming through you’ve just gotten access to the stuff you wanted and no “payment” (ad) has been served.
I consider that to be a form of piracy. I’m not saying it’s always unethical, I would say having a browser adblocker is necessary because of all the bad garbage out there. I run UBlock Origin and PiHole on my devices so I can not see any ads at all and I consider that piracy in my case.
I know alot of people would disagree, piracy may not be the right word but I think it’s important to think about it.
Sounds like a categorisation issue.
Blocking ads is a security necessity, not piracy.
I’m sure you are trying to equate blocking of ads to cutting off their income stream or something, but it isn’t anything like that. It is just not displaying something that would be ignored anyway with the added bonus of not letting the advertisers collect metadata on you without your permission. Blocking ads is comparable to not looking at billboards, but even better!