Aurynn ShawYou are not responsible for other people’s failing business models.
Adblockers are a safety measure on the modern internet. Do your part: help everyone get more adblocking.
SlightlyCyberpunk@aurynn Agreed...but I think we need to stop including caveats to this. It's my computer; it will run the code I tell it to run. If you want to tell a computer what code to run you can go buy your own.
Too many manufacturers think they can "sell" you something and still claim it to be theirs. Too many websites think they can send you data that you didn't request and then force you to use it the way they want. It's all the same category of bullshit and we need to outright refuse. "It's a safety issue" or "it slows down my system" or even "they're just too annoying" all leaves room for someone to claim they've "fixed it" and now because they've "fixed it" they can demand a "right" to be unblockable. Fuck that.
You don't get a right to come into my bedroom and plaster a giant Viagra ad over the ceiling and then tell me *I'm* immoral when I take it down or kick you out. Doesn't fuckin matter if I invited you in. Doesn't matter if that ad pays your rent. You have no damn right to tell me what I can or cannot do in my bedroom. Doesn't matter if that's with the computer part of my bedroom or the wall decor part of my bedroom. Fuck right off with all of that.
Matt McLeod@admin counterpoint: I do however have a right to tell you that if you want the thing I am offering, then you have to abide by the terms under which I’ve offered it to you. If you don’t like those terms, don’t use my thing.
@mjm If I've signed a contract, sure. But if you're sending me data without first negotiating that agreement then I will use that data however I want.