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Personally I would feel differently about circumventing their block than about blocking ads. If they want to block me, I would accept it.

Maybe there would always be people who "steal", but are they really so many that it would hurt?

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You know how easy it is to install and use Adblock for Firefox? That's how easy it would be for most people to use the anti-anti-Adblock extension that someone would write within a week.

Sure, but what I wanted to express is that blocking ads does not feel like stealing to me. Circumventing their site block would feel like stealing.

I would consider subscribing to Ars technica if the offer me an ad free experience as well as their pdf formatting etc...

That's exactly what you get when you subscribe to Ars Technica:

http://arstechnica.com/subscriptions/

You also get full-text RSS feeds and the occasional bit of content exclusive to subscribers, as well as some other (less noteworthy) perks.

(Disclosure: I'm under contract with Ars Technica, working on a projected unrelated to any of this.)

This seems to imply that ads are not served only on the forums. i don't care about the forums. or rather, i want an ad free option on the entire content of the site, not a segment.

Are you sure? On the same page, they say:

"Banner-free browsing on Ars Technica means no distractions, just content. Better yet, the ad-free pages are optimized so there are no "holes" where ads used to be. It's a tighter experience."

No ads anywhere on the site. It's fantastic. :)

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