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0 pointsnine_k1y ago0 comments

Warning: browsing the Web without an ad blocker is hazardous to your mental health. If you regularly see ads permeating most web pages, and don't know how to avoid that, you may need to see a specialist.

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AStonesThrow1y ago

Perhaps some of us choose not to rip off payments that are due to the people who provide a service that we're using. If I visit a website that's so infested with ads that I don't like being there, it's on me to stop visiting that website.

I simply don't think it's fair to cheat service providers when we don't like their service. You have a choice, and that choice is to not use that service at all. They're providing it under the terms that it is ad-supported. If you don't want to support it, but you still want to use it, then you're cheating someone. That is dishonest and unethical.

quesera1y ago

If ad-supported sites would return an optional response header indicating such, and their opinion on adblocking visitors. E.g.:

  Advertisement-Permission: [required|requested]

And my adblockers had a config option to abort pageloads with an appropriate error message, if `required` or `requested`, then I would use it happily.

In the meantime, I'm browsing every site with all content blockers set at maximum, because any other choice is incomprehensible on the modern web.

If I consequently visit some sites that want me to consume advertising of which I am unaware, then that is entirely their issue, not mine.

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