Lea Verou: “AdBlock is morally equivalent to theft IMO”
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Re: Lea Verou: “AdBlock is morally equivalent to theft IMO”
#2I believe in paying people. Just let me directly pay them for things that I actually think I need, and I will.
Meanwhile, I'm going to continue to uBlock sites that don't respect my need for keeping garbage out of my mind.
Re: Lea Verou: “AdBlock is morally equivalent to theft IMO”
#3Since we're making ridiculous claims here:
If AdBlock is morally equivalent to theft, having a business model where you have no legal protection against working for free is functionally equivalent to idiocy.
Re: Lea Verou: “AdBlock is morally equivalent to theft IMO”
#4I believe in paying people. Just let me directly pay them for things that I actually think I need, and I will. Meanwhile, I'm going to continue to uBlock sites that don't respect my need for keeping garbage out of my mind.
Imagine the Internet if it were Sao Paulo...how beautiful it would be.
Re: Lea Verou: “AdBlock is morally equivalent to theft IMO”
#5I really hope that this view isn't widespread amongst W3C people. "Controlling what HTTP reqs my device sends is morally wrong because the server owner expects to monetise them" is absurd.
Re: Lea Verou: “AdBlock is morally equivalent to theft IMO”
#6OK then, your website and the ad-networks are now CRIMINALLY LIABLE for any and all malicious code that arrives on my computer through them, so that if some ransomware destroys my files you will pay me to cover damages.
Sound like a good start?
Maybe later we can talk about you compensating me for how any of your badly-behaved ads degrade my service on other sites by burning CPU cycles, using outsize amounts of connections and bandwidth.
.. And that's not even touching the whole confidentiality/privacy aspect.
Re: Lea Verou: “AdBlock is morally equivalent to theft IMO”
#7I agree with her completely and didn't use adblock until ~6 months ago. But, the click bait "one weird trick" and "you'll never believe what XYZ did to ABC" horseshit ads made me crack. I just couldn't deal with seeing that nonsense anymore. I'd be happy to do micropayments, but at this point it looks unlikely to happen.
Re: Lea Verou: “AdBlock is morally equivalent to theft IMO”
#8That means going to the bathroom during a commercial on TV is also theft.
I have an idea: get a better business model instead of thinking you're going to be rich selling advertising on the internet.
Re: Lea Verou: “AdBlock is morally equivalent to theft IMO”
#9There are people who think advertising is morally equivalent to theft of other people's time and attention. I don't know if I'd go that far, but I do believe that AdBlock lets me get more out of the Web by eliminating the constant cognitive background noise produced by ads.
Re: Lea Verou: “AdBlock is morally equivalent to theft IMO”
#10I agree with her completely and didn't use adblock until ~6 months ago. But, the click bait "one weird trick" and "you'll never believe what XYZ did to ABC" horseshit ads made me crack. I just couldn't deal with seeing that nonsense anymore. I'd be happy to do micropayments, but at this point it looks unlikely to happen.
You agree that when viewing a public site whose main revenue model is ads, you enter an implicit contract to view those ads? If so, why? If not, why do you agree that being selective about what HTTP reqs you make is morally equivalent to theft just because the site owner expects you not to be and hopes to gain money off that?