You know what's immoral? Advertising medicine. Advertising surgery breakfast foods to kids. Advertising garbage fast food to kids.
That's immoral, not adblockers.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2023
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I love a big bowl of surgery for breakfast
Mm delicious triple bypass
You know what's immoral? Advertising
Just this would do.
It seems I’m stupid because I don’t understand what you imply when you say advertising medicine is immoral
Because people shouldn't be convinced to take a medicine based on good marketing. They should get advice from a good source like a doctor.
Ohh, right, I see, thank you
It's illegal in Europe for example. Because it's big pharma basically pushing unnecessary drugs on people.
A reminder that this war isn't new, even before the mass consolidation of TV stations, they got together to standardize commercial break timing so it didn't matter if you changed the channel because you were just switching to commercials on another channel
Considering that everyone can be targeted by "bad actors" ... by even ads on search engines (see https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/-nitrogen-ransomware-effort-lures-it-pros-via-google-bing-ads ) adblockers are as immoral as a knight wearing armor because it's an "unfair advantage". Sorry, but no one I know wants ransomware installed on their computers.
The way I see it, they ruined ads for themselves and it's not our fault for hating them enough to want to get rid of them. If ads didn't make the web literally unusable, steal our data, consume more system resources than the site itself, and be a portal for malware, people would be more accepting of them to support websites.
This is a textbook greed leads to ruin tale, like cyberpunk Aesop.
Adblockers are self-defense technology by nature
We are in an asymmetrical arms race involving an abhorrent industry. They cannot feign to discuss morality when it's common knowledge they have none.
It's probably fine for a website to kindly request you unblock them, or better yet offer easy & private ways to donate or contribute. If they don't offer the latter, they can't really cry about it can they?
Actually, I like watching TV commercials. But I think it's just me.