While consuming the content, you’re avoiding paying some content its price, because you protest how the content guards its commercial interests. Thus, ahoy!
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Time is our most precious resource and advertisers are here to waste it. I have no qualms telling them to fuck off.
i do block ads because they waste my time. that’s still piracy, and there’s a bajillion ethical reasons to commit piracy
Ads are an unwanted local infection that brings malware and brainwash people. Blocking ads is the sane behavior, not piracy at all.
Unless you’re giving food and shelter to every Jehovah’s Witness that comes to your home, then you’re the insane one.
It does not have anything to do with sea so it’s not piracy, nor is it copying without license. You aren’t in a contract with people that show you ads, there is no legal requirement to do it. I don’t care about their commercial interests but care a whole lot about my time and interests, I feel no obligation to do it, nor care if some ad-supported thing will stop existing. Like fuck them lol.
The deal is between the person paying for the ad and the person displaying the ad.
I wasn’t ever involved in the deal, I owe them nothing.
you are involved in the deal, because advertisers pay by how many times the ad is displayed (or clicked). just like how you are involved in the deal between the distributor and cinema, because the pay depends on how many tickets you buy.
If that’s the extent of my involvement, Following that thought, an ad blocker means I’m not involved in the deal anymore?
as much as sneaking into a seat in a cinema without paying means you’re no longer involved in the deal. so yeah, you might have a point that you’re no longer involved in any deal, but i’d still call that piracy.
Ads are egregious attempts at brainwashing you into buying something. Blocking ads is morally correct. If something relies on ads, then its business model is broken.
OP ran out of cheeks to bury their nose in.
i also like to smell armpits
The fact you have more comments than up votes means this is a legit unpopular opinion, Good job 👍
Working to avoid the excesses of surveillance capitalism isn’t piracy, it’s self-defense.
It isn’t in any way piracy. I am under no obligation to pay attention to ads.
Or give them access to my network or my compute.
not paying attention to ads is very different from blocking the ads
Not to me.
but to the website’s wallet
If they didn’t track me and spy on me I wouldn’t have a problem. But they track me and spy on me so they have to go. That isn’t piracy. Its not getting ripped off. When there are no definitive laws or rules then I can’t break them.
If one of the pirate parties succeeded in implementing their platform, I’d still call the act piracy there.
Okay. Its clear you have a vested interest in it being wrong. Its not and its not illegal.
Is throwing away unopened junk mail stealing from the post office? Its the exact same thing
When I ride my ad-subventioned subway and I look away from the ads, am I free riding the sub?
no, and neither is looking away from internet ads. blocking on the other hand stops the ad company from paying
