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Ads are completely consensual.

You explicitly go to Google, Facebook, some website. No one is pushing ads to you PC without you making a request to.

I mostly dislike ads and adtech, because their value is overstated. However... You aren't entitled to stuff that people publish. Thus placing an ad blocker when visiting my site, you're being an asshole.

Would you pay Google $500 per year for all of their services? Then $200 to Facebook. Then your local news portal another couple of hundred.



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