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Re:Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers by rndmwlk on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:54PM (#37573627)
I think a more fitting analogy would be walking into a store to sit down and cool off with no intent of buying anything. You are "taking" passive resources (air conditioning, space, potentially employee attention). Would you consider that to be unethical?

Personally, I don't believe ad blocking is unethical because I don't believe the ways in which advertisers collect and sell their data is ethical.

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Re:Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers by paulryanrogers on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:55PM (#37574569)
If you could loiter in a store and automatically bypass seeing anything being sold there then that would be unethical. Some places even have rules against loitering because they just don't have capacity to serve as a hang out spot for all the people living nearby.
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Re:Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers by Mystery-Machine on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:54PM (#37575558)
Our data* It's not their
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