🐢 Keb Is adblock stealing? Do you use adblock? Why? Sure, advertisers don't have the right to your attention, but don't the content creators have the right to your financial support?

🧐 Nrmn They have the right to financial support but they don't have the right to rip me off my privacy.

🐢 Keb But do you then donate/pay for every site you use adblock on? Like for example, YouTube content creators depend on advertisements OR Youtube Premium to derive payment from your views.

🧐 Nrmn I'm actually not blocking ads on YouTube.

🐢 Keb Right but why the exception on YouTube, and don't you still use it on other sites that may depend on ad revenue to keep their servers running?

🧐 Nrmn I use a hosts list to block advertising and malicious sites. This leads to much faster loading times literally everywhere. But if the page is serving their ads in a decent way, it's not being blocked.