No real offence intended but, to me it seems obvious that your arguments are logically flawed and I'm not going to waste my time, but I will say your contrarianism is actually kinda entertaining in a sadistic sort of way. I really am only expressing my opinions, I could be wrong, but I really don't think I am, really it's just a matter of perspective. There are givers and there are takers in this world, and when there are more givers than takers the world becomes a better place. However the trend, which indeed I assume you are a good example of, for people these days seems to be towards takers and zero-sum minded people. Which is something I hope to discourage. This all of course is philosophical and not technical, I have a preference for discussing real technical matters in regards to crypto, cryptocurrencies, algorithm ideas, privacy assurance, and steganography (favorite cipher), and of course sharing of industry related news and insights. I hope you all have a great day. :-) *Joseph Frazier* On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 5:47 PM, juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 16:40:40 -0600 Joseph Frazier <j0zffrazier@gmail.com> wrote:
Personally, I consider ad-blocking a form of theft,
priceless. You might have not noticed but people are supposed to own their computers. So the actual theft is done by the ad publishers who are criminally accessing hardware they do not own. That's especially blatant in the case of the tons of javashit tracking malware they run on the computers of their victims.
Sure, it's their computer, but they chose to visit a site which is not theirs,
so? If you don't want your site 'visited' then don't make it public. This is a variation of a non-argument for 'intellectual property'. if you don't want 'your' ideas 'stolen' then keep them secret.
One that was created and maintained by somebody else. It costs to create and host sites,
so?
if there is no means for monetization then the likely macro repercussion is less sites
you mean, less garbage, less misinformation and the like? Sounds like a good thing.
or more pay-sites.
but you want people to pay through advertising so what's the difference?
Perhaps someday on some sites you may choose: 1. micro-crypto payments. 2. give me ads. 3. allow my browser to mini-mine crypto
.... 4 - put people who run malware on my machine in jail.
for the site owner. 4. by donation ie wikipedia.... There is no free lunch, the attitude that people should get something for nothing in my opinion is a cancer to society.
nah, it's the greedy idiots who want to sell or advertise garbage and who think they own the computers of other people.
so now go back to your outrageous claim that " ad-blocking [is] a form of theft" and try to grasp how fucked the claim is.