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.
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.
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.
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