Showing some ads in an ad funded website is the admission fee. You’re not willing to pay it, which is completely fine, so just don’t go to that website. But if you keep coning back to an ad funded website because you enjoy their content, it’s only fair that you disable the ad blocker in that site.
Those sites that showed you the “disable ad blocker” pop up that prompted you to leaving won’t miss you.
Its not an admission fee. The website is hosted on a publicly accessible web server. There is no admission fee. The browser I am using serves my purposes; if I wish to strip certain elements from the page, add new ones or reformat the page any way I see fit, I can and am allowed to.
The point Google seem to be making quite clearly, is that the browser does not serve my needs, but the needs of Googles paying customers.
We're talking about ethics here, not laws nor what's technically possible.
You want to support the ad-funded website you keep coming to, yes or no? Yeah ideally every website would have a paid option for the HN crowd with cushy jobs, but that's not always feasible.
> We're talking about ethics here, not laws nor what's technically possible.
In that case, ads, being psychological manipulation to get users to do things they would not otherwise do, are already highly unethical. The ethical think to do is to discourage their use, which includes blocking them for yourself thus making them less profitable overall.
Except they don't just show you adds, they heavily track you in all kinds of disingenuous and non transparent ways.
But hey, it's great that some people want to make the devices they own and holds extremely valuable days of their own person, something controlled by external entities.
Don't worry, those of us who know our tech and value our privacy, will continue not listening to the "just take it" crowd.
And I won’t miss them, not sure the point you’re making, i am not able to know if a website has ads before visiting it, can only leave once. It has asked me to
Those sites that showed you the “disable ad blocker” pop up that prompted you to leaving won’t miss you.