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Originally Posted by murraypaul
So by analogy, if an online news site complained to your ISP that you had viewed their articles, but their logs showed that you had not viewed their adverts, so you must be using an ad-blocker, so you are infringing their copyright, so if you continue to do so they can apply to have your connection terminated, what would your response be?
Have you ever used ad-blocking software? You dirty thief you
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Without the ads on commercial TV, there is no commercial TV. Do you honestly see no ethical issue with watching the product without the ads in that circumstance? It's certainly not copyright infringement, but I do (personally) think that it's just plain "wrong". |
Without the ads on commercial websites, there are no commercial websites.
So what would your response be to a threat to disconnect your internet service for using ad-blocking software?
And no, I see no ethical obligation whatsoever to watch adverts.