Gregory's ServerBlocking ads is a moral good, actually. Advertisements are psychic pollution and being forced to watch them is like being forced to drink contaminated water. If you have an effective filtration method, or a source of clean water, it is morally positive to use it and to teach others how to use it as well. In the same way, it's a moral positive to filter out advertising and use sources that aren't tainted by ads in the first place, and to teach others how to do the same.
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@retrosponge @stellarskylark these are the stats on my nextdns account. its crazy  @stellarskylark My pet peeve is when random sites I click from reddit make a long whine about me needing to support quality journalism (=regurgitating stuff from other similar sites) by enabling ads. then should I turn off adblock, an advertiser is instantly trying to do something shitty, like open the app store for me on some pay to win crap game or something.  @stellarskylark Moreover, I believe that it is always the consumer that should have the last say on how they want to consume a product, be it a web site, a bottle of soft drink, a screwdriver or a tractor. @stellarskylark so, you're saying you're morally opposed to copyright basically? Because if copyright is moral, then authors of blog posts should have a say on the conditions under which you're allowed to see their content. @aeftaw there are limits there though... It's not like a copyright holder can require you to give them your kidneys to view their work. As a society we get to decide what the limits of copyright are. @stellarskylark i've never liked ads to much because they are to intrusive and make browsing the internet worse. |
@stellarskylark I set up a Pi-Hole yesterday and in the time it's been running it has blocked a full 25% of all the DNS requests. This is to block ads, tracking etc...