While consuming the content, you’re avoiding paying some content its price, because you protest how the content guards its commercial interests. Thus, ahoy!
While consuming the content, you’re avoiding paying some content its price, because you protest how the content guards its commercial interests. Thus, ahoy!
It does not have anything to do with sea so it’s not piracy, nor is it copying without license. You aren’t in a contract with people that show you ads, there is no legal requirement to do it. I don’t care about their commercial interests but care a whole lot about my time and interests, I feel no obligation to do it, nor care if some ad-supported thing will stop existing. Like fuck them lol.
i value social contracts over law, and especially for small websites, when their advertising is unintrusive i think i should help them survive and keep running. a ton of major things i use like great independent news sources and some hosters of pirated content use ads while i don’t have a membership.
by analogy, maybe piracy doesn’t reduce indie devs’ revenues that much as it provides word-of-mouth. but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pay for them.
Understandable position and truly unpopular. My opinion is - ads are the raison d’être of surveillance capitalism of today and they often exploit our psyche in a ways that border on mind control, so minimizing my exposure to them doesn’t break social contract, and most people don’t block ads not because they think that it harms someone but because they don’t know that it’s possible.
I agree.