[kennywinker]

It's unclear what the business relationship is when you click on a link. I click on a link in a tweet, and I'm taken to a site and apparently I've agreed to be shown ads? No. Plenty of sites I visit are not trying to monetize my eyeballs. Calling using software to give you a choice about what you agree to "piracy" seems wrong.

If sites offered consent - like "Welcome to this site, you'll see 10 ads per page, sold through google's ad network. Our content is written by humans not robots. Please disable adblock and proceed." That's a different relationship. Perhaps then it's more like taking something without paying ("piracy").

Perhaps in a sustained relationship, where you repeatedly visit a site, you know what it offers you and you want it, but are unwilling to pay the price of ads... maybe that starts to edge towards a piracy like situation.