An approach to fair ad blocking

Re:An approach to fair ad blocking by ErrantX on Monday May 11, 2009 @06:51PM (#604496)

Theoretical question (loosely related) if it is ethical to remove adverts from "free" websites is it ethical for those websites to ban ABP users from the site?

How far does that argument go?

(I am not sure my position on it TBH, thought I would throw it out to you lot).

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Re:An approach to fair ad blocking by jfarmer on Monday May 11, 2009 @07:53PM (#604570)

I'd say "yes" to both questions. I should have control of my computer and how it displays data, and you should have control over whom you send that data to.

Everything else is a cost/benefit analysis.

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Re:An approach to fair ad blocking by paulgb on Monday May 11, 2009 @08:08PM (#604589)

Sure, they pay the bandwidth bill, after all. I don't see any ethical issues with them banning users for whatever reason they want.

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