But don’t make it superficially free and then try to make me feel guilty when it costs you something. The hypochrisy of that is pretty insulting, in my view - if your content is free, make it free if it’s not free then charge for it. In any case it isn’t really the ad-blocking that’s the issue, it’s business models that refuse to acknowledge human nature, and content providers who want to make money while pretending that’s not their motive. It’s all the same, and objecting to one is objecting to all of them (which is why the law would never be able to intervene - making the activity of ad-blocking illegal would make all user-modification illegal, including the use of assistive technologies, user CSS and user scripting, and other extensions). Any part of the web is customisable for you - you can make sites have a high-contrast color scheme because you need that to read, or you can filter out all images because you don’t have the bandwidth to load them, or you can selectively remove particular types of content because you simply don’t want to see it. I know there are some who think that blocking ads is tantamount to theft, but I think their arguments are entirely specious. ![]() I’m no fan of ads myself, and I really don’t have an issue with people using ad-blocking software.
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