[imglorp]

But it's not just ads: that's disingenuous by understating the impact. It's the entire tracking, data broker, ad marketplace, surveillance capitalism ecosystem. This ecosystem causes immense harm in global climate, ruins lives, delivers malware, violates privacy, and supports authoritarian overreach.

Ads might be fine, a pinch of annoyance.

And yes I pay for my content thank you.

[helpmefindpurp]

This is why EU legislators have made the "cookie law". The site will tell you that they are using ads, and you are free to just leave. the. site. Stop mooching off people's hard work by killing their only source of revenue, ad blockers are immoral

[nottorp]

> Stop mooching off people's hard work by killing their only source of revenue, ad blockers are immoral

What hard work? Most of the time it's "content" written by minimum (African) wage "copywriters"*. We are drowned into a deluge of shit, so excuse us when we don't trust anyone.

Also, I believe you have no idea what the "cookie law" is about.

* soon to be replaced with "content" that is LLM generated.