Thank you for ad blocking

Re:Thank you for ad blocking by anonymousab on Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:13AM (#11323224)

So if websites sent you a license agreement before serving content, which required you to load the ads for that content as the condition of viewing it, would blocking ads at that point be illegal?

If this became a standard, automatic component of the web and of browsers, known at install time, wouldn't that move ad blocking into poor legal territory?

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Re:Thank you for ad blocking by Touche on Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:20AM (#11323249)

IANAL so I can't answer your question. But I think we can posit a world in which advertisers have garnered enough political clout to enact anti-ad blocking laws and that would shift the conversation.

At that point it still wouldn't be equivalent to pirating, IMO, but rather more like using DeCSS to circumvent DVD scrambling.

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Re:Thank you for ad blocking by ikeboy on Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:39AM (#11323314)

>At that point it still wouldn't be equivalent to pirating, IMO, but rather more like using DeCSS to circumvent DVD scrambling.

You're not paying. This seems more like borrowing a DVD from a library or friend, then ripping it using such software and watching it after you return it.

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Re:Thank you for ad blocking by Touche on Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:43AM (#11323324)

It's not, the creators (the website) directly gave it to me. I'm not borrowing it from someone that paid. My browser sent them a GET and they replied with 200 OK and some content. Whether I paid or not is irrelevant; they voluntarily gave it to me.

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