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I.e. using ad blockers is a moral imperative.


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Ad blocking is indeed very much moral.

I love it that you included ad blocking as moral. Absolutely agreed.

Also, this is a video that argues for ad-blockers from an ethical perspective: https://youtu.be/bltoTMJZetc.

I noticed the moralistic hand wringing about the propriety of ad blockers.

Good argument for the morality of ad blocking

Do you refuse to use adblockers based on some moral principle?

Yet another reason why ad blocking is ethical.

Exactly. Inundating information with intrusive ads works directly against this goat, so blocking those ads isn't just your right, it's a moral imperative.

Well yes, that's what an ad blocker does. But a lot of people believe ad blockers are unethical.

Actually NOT blocking ads is at the very least morally evil and degenerate.

You are a very bad person if you think adverts are morally justifiable in any form.


That blocking ads is ethical.

How does the survival of web sites that depend on ads create a moral imperative though?

These sites are instructing my browser to download content from ad networks using the ISP bandwidth that I paid for. I'm fully in my right to tell my browser not to download that content.


There's nothing ethical about the way advertising invades every part of society, every corner of your home, and every available minute of human attention. Blocking ads is eminently moral, because the only way to stop their encroach is to punish their purchase by blocking them.

Ad blockers can be an ethical issue if one considers that's what funds a site's content and its widespread availability.

The moral issue is that the websites need to pay their bills. However, I'm in agreement with you for a far simpler reason:

If websites had cared about "ethical advertising" in the first place we probably wouldn't have had ad blockers.

We've been dealing with "unethical advertising" since, what, 1995? I'll disable my ad blocker in 20 years.


I don't know where you are going with this. If your argument is that ad blocking is immoral then say it so you can be downvoted.

The time and money I save by using ad blockers, I use for helping other people, the world, the environment. I don't feel morally guilty for blocking adds.

I can also decide to walk out of the room, check my phone, ignore the ads, etc

The problem with this part of your argument is that it ignores free will, and conflates morals with ethics. Blocking ads is a moral imperative for me, because I decide which programming I watch. The self-serving reasoning and the superior logical reasoning are one and the same.

Ethically, it might also be wrong to do. But not for the reasons you describe here.


> ad blocking is unethical

It is as ethical as:

1. politely declining a marketing leaflet

2. switching to a different TV channel when there is a commercial

3. looking away from the newspaper ads or roadside billboards

etc.

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