Track_ShovelI'm tired, Boss
paddirnDenying profit to corporations is theft, so using adblockers will be put on the same level as digital piracy. How dare you consume content without letting your eyeballs get force-fed ads.
Using ad blockers is piracy, insofar as you’re avoiding paying the price the content provider has set for that content. The price is watching the ads, rather than being something directly monetary, and you’re not paying it.
That said, neither that nor piracy are theft, and in both cases I gladly pirate because the prices in most instances have gotten away too high for what you get. Either in terms of subscription cost, or the time and quantity of ads delivered.
If blocking ads is piracy, then ad viewing time is equated to money and showing ads while either failing to provide the service the user wanted or not providing any at all is theft.
SchmooBased
mriormroThis is a bit of a chicken and an egg scenario. Who pays first? The user, the content creator, or the content host?
AntEaterWho pays first? The user, the content creator, or the content host?
I couldn’t care less. If my adblocker is the straw that caused a company to go out of business, brings on the collapse of the internet as a whole, and ultimately the breakdown of western civilization, then all of it deserves to die. With that knowledge, I’d still update by block lists and donate to uBlock Origin.
The user “pays” the creator and host at the same time by watching an ad, so it depends on when it plays. Not sure what you’re getting at.