Quote: "Oh my, I should immediately turn off the antivirus, I are not entitled to visit sites without the trojans!
Oh my, I should immediately turn off the anti-banner, I are not entitled to visit sites without the pr0n banners!"
First of all, Grow up. If you want to have a sensible discussion stop acting like a child.
Secondly, as I said before, if you don't approve with the way a site deals with their monetization, it doesn't entitle you to view their content for free.
You see the same childish entitlement when it comes to arguments about piracy.
"I don't agree with the $60 price tag for this video game so I'll pirate it instead"
You can't justify it. No matter what argument you come up with you will always be saying: "I wan't to view this content for free because X".
Quote: "Are you telling me that you never skip commercials or flip to another channel while watching a show on tv? Those advertisers spend thousands to show you those ads, whereas on the internet, the person merely went to google and copied some code into their site for free."
I don't watch TV, because 1) There is never anything good on and 2) I don't really want to spend £150 a year on something I'll hardly ever use.
I don't then go and illegally plug my TV into the socket because I feel I'm entitled to watch TV without paying for the license. Instead I opt to not consume the content because I take issue with the license fee.
Quote: "And I'm perfectly entitled to visit without the ads because it's my right to control what gets downloaded to my machine."
You are correct, it is in your right to choose what content is delivered to your machine, that's why you opt not to visit websites that deliver the content you don't want. You however aren't entitled to view that website in the first place.
It isn't a basic human right to watch cats do silly things on YouTube, so if the owners of YouTube wish to pay the bills with a 30 second advert before the video, then I think they should be allowed to, and nothing you can say can justify taking the content for free.
EDIT:
I just want to put another note in here about different methods of monetization. I agree that it would be nice to have the option on some websites to subscribe to that service to bypass the adds.
I would happily do that on YouTube for instance for the channels I frequent.
However, isn't that just another one of those arguments you hear that is similar to other media piracy?
You often here people saying:
"Oh yeah I pirated this game because I can't afford it, but I'll buy it when it becomes cheaper"
I'd put good money on the fact that people who say things like that never buy it and I'd wager that if YouTube started offering subscriptions as an alternative to ads, the majority of people using AdBlock will just continue to use AdBlock.
Also another interesting point about piracy. Who has video game piracy punished in the long run? Has it been the development houses? The publishers? The people who pirate the software? Or has it in fact been the consumers that have been punished because of it? DRM anybody? Wasn't there a thread not long ago about about DRM for HTML5?
Interesting....
