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Ad-blocking is piracy, and that's okay

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Ad-blocking is piracy, and that's okay

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Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

While consuming the content, you’re avoiding paying some content its price, because you protest how the content guards its commercial interests. Thus, ahoy!

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Ads is a form of psychological harassment for many reasons.

when you see a solicitor you don’t pay them bread and jam, their company does

Cult members are often not paid by their cults. You should give them your money then.
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  so is DRM.
  
  money isn’t what cult members want when they volunteer to evangelize. that’s different from webmasters and ads.

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