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Re:Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed by gameshot911 on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @02:39PM (#19321969)
Ad blocking is immoral and wrong. Loading a website with ads has an implicit agreement: I will give you my product (website content) if, in exchange, you agree load these ads.

If you don't want to see ads on a given site, your moral option is to stop visiting the site.

Glad we finally resolved that once and for all. /s

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Re:Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed by flyinfungi on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @02:57PM (#19322164)
No it is not. It is my browser, coming into my house. Prove to me you are not doing something creepy with the data, being annoying, and providing value back in your ads and I will decide to quit blocking you.
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Re:Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed by Green_man on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @06:03PM (#19323900)
An implicit agreement isn't an agreement at all. there were no terms, was no negotiation, just an expectation projected by the website creator.
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Re:Facebook Still Tracks People on Yelp, Duolingo, Indeed by tombert on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @05:05PM (#19323369)
What about setting my hostfile to block sites that are known to track me? I'm not explicitly "blocking ads", just "blocking tracking", but a side-effect of this will invariably be that ads are blocked? Is it immoral?
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