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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

All of you using adblockers are pathetic. You'll willingly deprive companies of their revenue just because you can't be bothered to see a few ads? It's not like ads are harmful or anything!

...hang on I think porn just started playing on my computer I have to find where the popup is and close it... Right after I close this other popup that says I've won 69 trillion dollars, and this one for dick pills, and this one for free vbucks, and this online casino one, and that one saying I have 420 viruses on my PC, and this one from the local fringe religious group that says I'll go to hell if I poop, and this one that straight up looks like it's trying to download ransomware, and... Damn my battery just died from all the extra processing power those popups needed. Uh but adblock is still evil though, don't forget that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Denying profit to corporations is theft, so using adblockers will be put on the same level as digital piracy. How dare you consume content without letting your eyeballs get force-fed ads.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Using ad blockers is piracy, insofar as you're avoiding paying the price the content provider has set for that content. The price is watching the ads, rather than being something directly monetary, and you're not paying it.

That said, neither that nor piracy are theft, and in both cases I gladly pirate because the prices in most instances have gotten away too high for what you get. Either in terms of subscription cost, or the time and quantity of ads delivered.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

bUt BlOcKiNg AdS iS pIrAcY

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

You wouldn't download an ad, would you?