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0 pointsdrdaeman10y ago0 comments

Primarily, it's a legal issue.

Although I genuinely wonder what came first - the discussion of ethics of "stealing" books or discussion of ethics of passed copyright laws.

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eli10y ago

So blocking ads is ethical because it's legal? That doesn't sound right.

drdaemanOP10y ago

As for ads - I suppose if there is an ongoing ethics discussion already (and I believe there is), then it's ethical issue. Not sure, though.

It's comparison that's didn't sound right to me. I'm just not sure it's well-comparable, because I suppose the major ethical debate about copyright infringement came from the existence of copyright laws. Which is not the case for ad-blocking.

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