[ponyous]

It's not your site, you cannot decide what it does. I mean really, blocking regular ads won't get us anywhere.

It's like receiving free news every morning, but you have ordered a kid who delivers them to cut out ads.

[jkhaxxe]

"It's like receiving free news every morning, but you have ordered a kid who delivers them to cut out ads."

What's wrong with that? What laws is that breaking? I'm not even sure that's breaking any social contract.

[jaggederest]

That's actually completely fine. You're allowed to do that.

Personally I use the free newspapers they unwarrantedly deliver to my house as a firestarter.

[dylangs1030]

Actually, you are explicitly allowed to decide what the site does, insofar as display is concerned. If it's client-side, you can do what you want. And blocking ads does get people somewhere - a less annoying internet.

As for your analogy...again, you're allowed to do that.

[sp332]

Actaully, the HTML of the "newspaper" directs my browser to connect to a bunch of other sites to download the sales flyers separately. I simply decline to fetch the ads. It's not like the website "puts ads in" and I "cut them out".