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It isn’t unethical to block ads; the norm on the internet has always been that senders send any not-actively-malicious bits we want and the recipient renders them however they want (including not).

That said I’m also worried about getting banned for blocking too many YouTube ads (Google doesn’t have any obligation to send me emails after all) so I… just don’t go there.

by bsoles4 hours ago|

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Stealing my data bandwidth by sending me unsolicited ads is also unethical. Profiling my online behavior and monetizing it is also unethical. YouTube doesn't seem to be bothered with compensating me for that. Why should I care about them?

by jeej5 hours ago|

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> I watch every ad in full.

Same here. When I am watching an ad on my phone, I make sure to smile and nod REAL big at the screen-side camera - sometimes throwing in a big thumbs-up - because I need these corporations to know that I love everything they do and stand for.

Sometimes I wish that YouTube was just 100% ads. Been ostracized at more than one party for saying that, though.

This is the society we live in folks. We have no choice but to accept it. Might as well stop and smell the roses - or in this case, LOL at the LiMu Emu.

by RiverCrochet2 hours ago|

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> Sometimes I wish that YouTube was just 100% ads.

This is the way. Remember Bitcoin faucets? Watch an ad and get 0.000000xx BTC?

A YouTube consisting of 100% advertisements that pays viewers pennies per watched ad will turn all the time people spend doomscrolling into a positive economic engine.

by tyromaniac10 hours ago|

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You're right, I didn't think about the thousands left destitute by them using UBlock Origin to play a fake meeting video

by ArvidSu10 hours ago|

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Corporate psy-op

by maxbond10 hours ago|

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The mafia is also made of hard working people with families to feed. Sometimes industries deserve to die. Even if the people working in them don't deserve to lose their jobs. That's life in a free market.

by RiverCrochet10 hours ago|

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There's nothing more "free market" than ads. Ads literally cost you no money (free), and you don't even have to buy the product they're advertising (freedom from market if desired). If I know I'm not going to buy the product in question, I use the time to meditate, or take a moment to enjoy a cool, crisp sip of Kool-Aid. It's delicious when prepared according to the instructions. Oh Yeah!

by rdiddly8 hours ago|

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by maxbond9 hours ago|

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There's nothing more free market than an ad blocker. Alice agreed to provide a service to Bob for and bundled in ads, Bob accepted the service and declined to run that JavaScript or render those images when Alice passed them along. If I drive past a billboard or accept a flyer on the street, no one would suggest I'm obligated to look at it.

by jonathanstrange9 hours ago|

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IMHO it's more ethical to block ads than not to block them because if you don't block them you're supporting unethical business models such as massive privacy invasions by collecting and selling user data, ad-based malware delivery, and scams.