Re:Why It’s OK to Block Ads (2015)
by seorphates on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @02:25PM
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Well, I couldn't agree more. The concept that ad-blocking is bad is right up there with the content industry thinking, believing that the Internet couldn't, wouldn't exist without them. Rubbish.
The Internet was not a platform for users. It was a platform for nuclear weapons, therefore by your logic anything that's been done to it since the 1960s must simply be wrong. Why don't you go and start your own network where you can read and write, post videos, and exchange other information?
> Do consider what killing off most of the independent professional info websites will do to the Internet.
Where do I sign up for that?
The web was never a platform for publishers, it was a platform for users (some of them publishers). Big publishers never wanted it and hated it but were forced to use it or face irrelevance. Now they act like they own the place and are entitled to their business model.
If you don't want your readers to be able to triage content and data once they receive it, go build your own network and publish on there.
Using advertisement blockers is not only not an unethical thing to do, it is the right to do to force back those who seek to usurp and abuse a popular commons that was build to serve all equally.