Software that has ads is no longer free (gratis). You're just paying for it with annoyance and intrusion instead of money.
And I think the collective opinion here is that we'd rather go without that software than to pay for it that way. In other words, we won't accept those terms and we won't use that software.
How did you arrive at that "collective opinion"? Google and Facebook still seem to be doing OK. Even limited to developers, StackOverflow is being used as much as ever.
I meant in this particular case. People accept that consumer products like Google and Facebook are funded by advertising.
We are talking about Free Software, libraries, and advertisements in the console. I think the collective opinion is that developers would rather not use that package than be subjected to ads in their console.
Re:NPM Bans Terminal Ads
by CJefferson on Friday August 30, 2019 @04:29PM
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Well then that's easily solved. People who don't want ads, don't use the software.
If you are a software developer and you want software without adverts, pay for it. If you want software for free, you accept whatever the author of that software chooses to do to pay their bills.