While consuming the content, you’re avoiding paying some content its price, because you protest how the content guards its commercial interests. Thus, ahoy!

  • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    4 days ago

    i’m not asking you to accept harassment, i’m not saying piracy is bad. i’m just saying that ad-blocking is one form of piracy, just like how people pirate to reject DRM. and it surprises me that so many people insist it’s not.

    i don’t understand why i would host a solicitor or how that is comparable to ads. when you see a solicitor you don’t pay them bread and jam, their company does. when you see an ad you don’t pay the website money, the ad company does.

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      4 days ago

      Ads is a form of psychological harassment for many reasons.

      when you see a solicitor you don’t pay them bread and jam, their company does

      Cult members are often not paid by their cults. You should give them your money then.

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        4 days ago

        so is DRM.

        money isn’t what cult members want when they volunteer to evangelize. that’s different from webmasters and ads.