"Ad blocking is the exact same thing as piracy“ – Linus Tech Tips

Uh huh. Nope.

You have no right to sell my screen space or processing capability. Sorry bout it. You want to display something? Go for it! I'm not inviting shady code into my network though.

>But my monetization!

Maybe... Just maybe... The Internet was not originally designed with first order support of doing nothing but putting stuff on the Internet, and not concentrating on figuring out your own business model.

When your customers habitually ad block, they are telling you "Not on my system," and that is okay.

We (the royal we) are not your eyeballs or sales to sell to someone else. Our attention is not something to be mined. Your audience is gifting you their attention. You are going and regifting it, and exposing them to God knows what, because I betcha LTT isn't in the business of picking WHO sends what content to fill those ad spots with.

Even if I accept the equivalency ( I don't ), this particular plea is just a little short of the now oft-derided 'you wouldn't download a car'.

I can understand the argument, but I do not accept 2 million trackers, autoplayers and host of other horrible behaviors modern web has become. Ads just happened to join the list, because they were not that much better; and sometimes were the embodiment of everything wrong with web. From my perspective, you brought it on yourself.

I have zero tears to shed.

The problem with ads on the internet is how they are so often abused, leading to a terrible user experience. Ad-blockers are the result of that abuse.

You may call it piracy, but that so called piracy is a direct result of abuse.

I personally disable my blocker for sites I support and which do not abuse the user experience.

put the add in the video like the movies do. Or embed the add on the page (comment/description) - I disapprove of the terms of use of the website you link to so I can't view the add.

Ads are the same thing as spyware

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30141498 from yesterday (2022-01-30).

Not as long as I own my own computer. Does my computer use CPU to display your ad? Yes. Do I get to control my computer? Yes, we're not a socialist state yet. It's mine. I will do what I please, shipmate!