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0 pointslmm10y ago0 comments

>Why do you feel entitled to use all the sites? They are not there to serve you out of goodwill. They are making a profit.

Most sites are doing it out of goodwill. There was a time when commercial organisations weren't allowed on the Internet at all. They're the interlopers here, they can play by the existing rules: if you put it on the Web, you expect your content to be accessed by a variety of people who will format it in their own ways.

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TheLogothete10y ago· 3 in thread

So it's not about "Hyperlinks don't come with a "this site is full of ads" marker". It's about you feeling entitled to other people's work for free, because... Oh yeah, because long time ago, the internet was not commercialized. Well, newsflash, it is now and those "rules" you talk about are no longer valid.

The fact that you made up a reason for your actions only shows that deep down, you know what you're doing is not right. Your mind just makes up justifications for it.

lmmOP10y ago

> So it's not about "Hyperlinks don't come with a "this site is full of ads" marker". It's about you feeling entitled to other people's work for free, because... Oh yeah, because long time ago, the internet was not commercialized.

It's the same thing. The reason that hyperlinks expect the site on the other end of the link to be freely available is because that's the custom and practice of the internet.

> The fact that you made up a reason for your actions only shows that deep down, you know what you're doing is not right.

So it's not about "it's simple to avoid advertising if you don't like it", now it's about "it's not right"? Who's making up their reasons now?

aninhumer10y ago

>The fact that you made up a reason for your actions only shows that deep down, you know what you're doing is not right. Your mind just makes up justifications for it.

So it's absolutely impossible for anyone's morality to ever differ from yours, and if they claim it does, they're just lying to themselves?

TheLogothete10y ago

I don't make up justifications for my actions. He said he blocks ads because he doesn't know if a link will lead to a page littered with ads, but that's not the case at all. He uses services which he obviously knows rely on ads to keep running, yet breaks their business model

You guys use a business and refuse to abide to its terms of service. In what school of thought that is acceptable?

In my country, you buy bus passes on the bus stop and you perforate it yourself when you get on the bus to signal that you've paid for your ride. You want to tell me I can get a free ride on the bus because it is not my job to make the bus company profitable. Are you serious?

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