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I’m not blocking ads; I’m exercising my property rights.
That’s how we need to be framing this, and the level of outrage we need to have about it: who the flying fuck do these technology companies think they are, to presume to dictate how I am “allowed” to use MY OWN PROPERTY?!
This is nothing less than a war on private property rights. They are trying to subjugate us and turn us into digital serfs. We are justified in defending ourselves and our rights by any means necessary. They are lucky we’re merely taking technological countermeasures and not shooting them in the street.
Yup, it’s also why I refuse to run video games with kernel-level anti-cheat (and I use Linux, so that wouldn’t work anyway), and why I block as much as I can through my browser. I do allow certain intrusions, like DRM for certain games or videos, but it’s on a case-by-case basis and not something I just hand out.
So I completely agree. If they want me to pay for it, they need to find a privacy-respecting way to do it. I can buy a newspaper at the store with cash, and until I can accomplish the same thing through my browser, I’ll keep using an ad-blocker. I’m happy to pay a few cents here and there, but I’m not making an account and I’m certainly not letting them plaster my browser with annoying and privacy-violating advertisements.
I’m not blocking ads; I’m exercising my property rights.
That’s how we need to be framing this, and the level of outrage we need to have about it: who the flying fuck do these technology companies think they are, to presume to dictate how I am “allowed” to use MY OWN PROPERTY?!
This is nothing less than a war on private property rights. They are trying to subjugate us and turn us into digital serfs. We are justified in defending ourselves and our rights by any means necessary. They are lucky we’re merely taking technological countermeasures and not shooting them in the street.
Yup, it’s also why I refuse to run video games with kernel-level anti-cheat (and I use Linux, so that wouldn’t work anyway), and why I block as much as I can through my browser. I do allow certain intrusions, like DRM for certain games or videos, but it’s on a case-by-case basis and not something I just hand out.
So I completely agree. If they want me to pay for it, they need to find a privacy-respecting way to do it. I can buy a newspaper at the store with cash, and until I can accomplish the same thing through my browser, I’ll keep using an ad-blocker. I’m happy to pay a few cents here and there, but I’m not making an account and I’m certainly not letting them plaster my browser with annoying and privacy-violating advertisements.