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Using ad blockers is theft
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this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2024
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Theft?
Methinks you don't know the definition of the words you use.
Even if it is - fuck 'em. 99% of websites use invasive scripting to track us, and they're clearly adversarial to us. Just read up on what Facebook has always done...think they're the only ones?
Website owners had a chance in the late 90's to treat users/consumers with respect, and chose to say "fuck you" instead, and since have doubled down on their attitude towards us.
Fine. You wanna play that way? I'll teach everyone I know how to use ad blockers and tools like DNS filters. I'll never buy something directly through your website, etc.
If you want to call ad blocking theft, then the delivery of ads is theft of my bandwidth, cpu time (electricity), and the invasive scripting/tracking is theft of my personal info.
How many boots do you lick in a day?
You use a service but deny it the remuneration it expects. If that does not meet your definition of theft, do you also think turnstile jumping is fair play?
It would be boot licking if Big Advertising or Big Content actually cared about my opinion. I have no illusion that they do.
Is boot licking made better or worse when the licked boots are apathetic?
You keep using that ~~word~~ phrase, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Jumping a turnstile is less theft than adblocking. That subway train is gonna run whether I'm there or not. On a site, you are more directly consuming their resources.
In any case, due to capitalism you can't give companies an inch cuz they are required to abuse the shit out of it to squeeze out as much money as possible. It's not enough to show an ad at the start of a YouTube video, now you have to have multiple unskippable ads at the start and also in the middle of it too. And that's not enough either, now you gotta track people across websites, even if they aren't logged in, to show more ads. And that's not enough either, now you gotta sell user data because if you don't, you're leaving money on the table. It's gross.