The Whole Web Pays For Google And Facebook To Be Free

Ad blockers aren't stealing. I have no obligation to view the ads. Similarly, they have no obligation to make the ads easy to remove.

Let's look at some non internet examples.

Clipping a physical news paper to mail an article to someone. No obligation to also clip and include one of the ads in the news paper.

If I give someone a phone number they need do I also need to serve them an ad out of the phone book?

If I record a tv show to watch it later, is fast forwarding the ads morally wrong?

And what about the other way around. I get plenty of as that don't come with content supplied to me. A billboard along a highway. I'm not receiving any news or other compensation for viewing that so are they stealing from me? Similarly, what about a store clerk offering me a store card, that's wasting my time and I don't get anything from it.

This gets absurd quickly.

Your premise that there is an implied contract that I must view the ads in exchange for the content is flawed.

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