While consuming the content, you’re avoiding paying some content its price, because you protest how the content guards its commercial interests. Thus, ahoy!

  • guy@piefed.social
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    1 month ago

    When I ride my ad-subventioned subway and I look away from the ads, am I free riding the sub?

    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      When I see an ad, I make note of the product and tell at least two people at random how that product gave my uncle cancer or burned down his house killing his entire family. Imagine a movement where every single person took ads and used them to create anti ads. Make company’s think before they steal our time and data. They will likely send some legal goons for you but this is the Chicago way

    • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      1 month ago

      no, and neither is looking away from internet ads. blocking on the other hand stops the ad company from paying