Ad Blocking Debate
The cluster centers on debates about using ad blockers, including ethical justifications, privacy and security concerns, annoyance with intrusive ads, and counterarguments like avoiding ad-serving sites or site owners blocking adblock users.
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Out of curiosity... Rather than blocking ads, why not block sites that have ads? This way you comply with their implicit wish not to have you read their content without some sort of monetary return.
Why dont you use an adblocker if you dislike ads?
Anyone browsing without an ad blocker should probably lose the right to complain about ads too :)
How is 'not visiting sites with obtrusive ads' meaningfully different from just blocking the ads?
Blocking ads so you can show your own is pretty evil though.
Sure, block ads. But why then visit those same sites that try to serve ads? Those sites clearly don't care about you, so why do you want to give them the pageviews?
how do these people convince themselves that the problem with ads is privacy and tracking? i use an ad blocker so that i _won’t see ads_.
counter point: blocking ads is self-defense and defense of others, including one's family. it is everyone's ethical duty to block all ads, because a non-trivial and unpredictable portion of ads contain hostile, abusive, invasive and/or subversive content. this can lead to loss of data, loss of time, loss of money and loss of privacy.
I use uBlock origin, the problem is I don't like tone of your article. Advertising is site owner's decision. If you don't like it than don't visit that site. So go and fuck yourself :)
do we really need another reason for blocking all ads?