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This medium (Internet over HTTP) is built in a way that I can choose how I render that information using the programs of my choice or the code that I write. Those who wish to prevent this can create a new medium, device, protocol, file format, or program, to push their advertising so that there is no choice.

The Internet is not a one-way broadcast nor is it newsprint. The browser is not a television. This medium is new and it is different and we shouldn't put up with having the old forms and methods being forced upon us.



This is apparent in the formal name of the browser: User Agent.

The browser works on our behalf.


What's your view on websites denying access if an adblocker is detected?


I'm fine with that. I don't visit them, and these websites will find out the hard way that antagonizing their audience isn't going to work. The Ad revenue mana isn't going to last, people are tired of all these ads on the internet, the security issues, the ads killing the battery issues, the webpage performance issues.


Personally, I'm fine with that. I'm also free to disable javascript for sites of that sort, though.


I deny them audience.

There are few paywalled/anti-adblocked/etc domains I don't even bother clicking links from.




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