Not using adblock is what's immoral. Advertisers and marketers are destroying society. If you don't block ads you support an industry which makes its money by spying on and manipulating everyday people.

If you work in advertising:

Advertisers are subhuman and I would have a pitbull interact with my loved ones sooner than I'd have an advertiser do the same.

If the ads would be self-hosted and properly curated by the hosting site I wouldn't have a problem with them (just as I don't have much of a problem with print or tv ads). The specific problem with web ads is that most of the web made a deal with the devil: 3rd-party ad-networks which are directly injecting who-knows-what into webpages. Those ads are not just cheap click-bait-trash, but also potential malware vectors. At that point, ad-blocking essentially becomes a civil duty ;)

You usually get some response like this in threads like that one, the reasonable middle ground response that claims that ads would be okay if they were just a bit more X. They never seem to realise that the actual reasonable response is that advertising companies need to go bankrupt as soon as they can and advertisers must suffer as much as possible. They can whine as much as they like, I am never going to stop blocking ads.

I like how people think that nagging will make people turn off their adblockers, because that's historically worked so well.

nooo you have to run whatever code i want on your computer, you visited my ai generated slop i paid to be top of google search

I WANT FREE STUFF

Ok then, look at my ads

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I will not watch the ads

I ended my prime and started pirating the shows when they tried

Didn't the industry stop paying for impressions years ago? As far as I'm aware, the only thing that gets the site money is people who actually click through, meaning that simply having an adblocker isn't meaningful if you're the type of person who never clicks on ads to begin with.

I don't care about morality I just hate ads

This whole situation could be fixed if it were viable to send pennies over the internet without high transaction costs.

Unironically, the whole Brave/BAT system is a good idea killed by the chicken and egg problem of getting users and sites on board.

Good attempt at bait but I simply don't believe there's anyone on this site without ad-block, including you.

Lol that's a lot of seething over a non-functional mechanism which:

• only “works” on Gecko engines

• uses fucking setTimeout on the server side to determine a viable response (thus increasing load times for everyone, load times being the single most important factor in user retention). You could probably just break this with your own greasemonkey/tampermonkey script which waits a few seconds.

• requires the server itself to store state about each client on each request, so horizontally scaling your server won't work

• Adblock filtering is done by domain and resource type anyways, so if you're serving ads from a domain you'll also need to make sure that exact domain is serving up a simple Javascript file. If you're a dumbass and just try to 103 the ad itself, then you've just further worsened the load time of clients AND are committing fraud against the ad company itself.

Further proof that only dipshits try to make money off web ads.

using adblock is literally stealing. of course it's immoral and something only degenerates would do. YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR SO STOP BLOCKING ADS YOU ARE KILLING JOURN*LISM IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?

I know it's immoral but i do it anyway because marketcels are subhuman

The FBI says to use ad-blockers.

As a good citizen I will continue to use ad-blockers.

I would be fine with ads if they weren't intrusive

cringe

it's a security threat, there could be viruses in there

cringe

yeah well, I don't want to see ads, so I'm just going to keep blocking them even if it's "unethical", sorry

cringe

it's literally a matter of your own personal bodily autonomy

you have a right to decide what kind of content you want to watch

you're a zoomer watching a movie with your parents and a s*x scene comes on? you can take out your phone and browse twitter for 2 minutes

you're a boomer watching a VHS tape of something you recorded decades ago and there's a commercial? you can have fast forward it

you finished watching a movie and the credits roll? you can switch the channel

you downloaded a music album and really dislike one specific song so you keep skipping it whenever it comes on? go right ahead

you're replaying DA:O and you're one of those losers who hate the Fade part so you downloaded a mod to skip it? cringe but whatever

the idea that someone can force you to consoom content inside your own home that you don't want to is a patently absurd one

sorry, I don't like this particular part of your website, I'm just going to block element it

your business model depends on ads? sorry, sounds like a you problem

If they don't want their content stolen they shouldnt respond to my browsers http request. What happens after that data is transmitted is none of their business.

If companies paid the full cost of ad delivery, as they do on other platforms like print media and billboards, then it would be more questionable to use blockers.

Unfortunately, the net neutrality crowd is partly responsible for this hellscape because they demonized the idea of sites and services covering (zero-rating) the bandwidth they use. If would be swell if all advertising had to be be zero-rated by law. The most obnoxious ads and auto-playing videos would plummet if sites paid the actual delivery costs for their slop rather than having mobile devices owners subsidize it.

There is nothing more morally correct than keeping ads away from your family and friends.

Remember when not using an adblocker was a literal security risk because ad networks couldn't be assed to vet their content ? Heck, that might actually still be the case? I haven't checked because why in the world would I stop using an adblocker lmao.

>be stupid normie

>pay for premium "ad-free" access to youtube or whatever

>still get ads

Don't care. Adblock on. Running SpotX for no ad spotify.

sudo rm -rf /

Snapshots:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39817486:

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)

>If you do not like the ads, just stop visiting sites that show ads...

No

Are people also stealing when they turn the tv off between commercials? You moralizing r-slur, I will never buy your shitty chinese widgets.

It's not enough to unblock ads. You have to actually click through and buy the products.

Anything less than this and you're still freeloading. You've just found a level of freeloading you can accept.

blocking ads is theft

its literally stealing and that's a good thing

My body device, my choice.