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Re:We’re dropping Google Ads by paulcole on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:10AM (#14094685)
>There's nothing illegal about ripping out the ad pages before reading a magazine at home.

Nope but hanging around the printing press and cutting out the ads in all your friends' papers seems unethical.

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Re:We’re dropping Google Ads by Canada on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:06AM (#14094912)
Unless your friend asks you to cut ads out of their newspaper. Ad blockers operate with explicit permission, so it's not as if anyone who wants to view ads is being deprived.
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Re:We’re dropping Google Ads by huehehue on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:31AM (#14094763)
>I would say it should be arguably illegal to resell content with ads removed

And it sounds like he agrees with you.

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