Ad blocking is the same as game pirecy
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that's a great idea, get the children to look at the ads, too!procyonlotor said:
seriously though, this is a pretty awful argument and I can't help but think of it as a parody of the slide from the "Piracy is stealing" truth to the "Used games is stealing" hyperbole that we've all been facing recently.
So does this include e-mail that automatically goes to the junk box? Every so often I look in it to see the numerous "Ads" I get projected at myself daily, and just ignore them. This poses the question of do you have a spam filter in your e-mail, and if so, do you look through the numerous ads for Prince Albert in a can?
Look, I have no idea what "pirecy" is, but the only ads I sit through are the ones that play on the Highlander episodes on Youtube, and that's because they force me to...and because Justin Timberlake is a pretty cool guy.
[sub][sub]He makes women cry rivers and doesn't afraid of anything.[/sub][/sub]
[sub][sub]He makes women cry rivers and doesn't afraid of anything.[/sub][/sub]
Your argument is flawed. It isn't illegal to block ads and no internet user is forced to agree to a Terms of Use before going online. If websites specifically required that you have to look at all ads without exception if you want to view their site it would certainly be different. Right now, however, you're only comparing legal loss of revenue to illegal loss of revenue.ionveau said:
Interesting thought experiment, though.
What you are, "just saying," is incredibly difficult to understand due to bad grammar. And yes there is a reason to add a "dot" as it is the end of a sentence.ionveau said:
OT: If you click on every ad you see out of some sense of duty to the web I don't know how you navigate the internet. That's like saying switching channels during a commercial break is stealing. Your argument is flawed.
1- When we buy a game it's a conscious decision to spend money
2- Ads are *forced* on us, nobody forces us to buy a game.
3- Many ads can/have/and shall be infected with a virus and/or mal-ware that may link us to less savory sites.
4- Since you haven't clearly made a link between website ads and games, I assume the only connection you have between the two is that they are on computers. So therefore changing the channel on the TV is equally as bad if you are using a console!
2- Ads are *forced* on us, nobody forces us to buy a game.
3- Many ads can/have/and shall be infected with a virus and/or mal-ware that may link us to less savory sites.
4- Since you haven't clearly made a link between website ads and games, I assume the only connection you have between the two is that they are on computers. So therefore changing the channel on the TV is equally as bad if you are using a console!
Ads are forced on me. I have never, EVER clicked on, much less purchased, from an irritating web ad.
Therefore, I actually SAVE money by not costing anyone the bandwidth required to serve the ad. Advertising these days is pay-per-click, not pay-per-impression.
Therefore, I actually SAVE money by not costing anyone the bandwidth required to serve the ad. Advertising these days is pay-per-click, not pay-per-impression.
I think a few of you should keep your mouth shut if you've got some kind of ad blocker, a thread about this turned up a few months ago and tons of people got suspended because the Escapist gets alot of their money from ads... I guess it's a bit safer now that they've got the Publisher's Club for income.
I'd still play it safe, though.
I'd still play it safe, though.
Look, i'm in the independent scene, so i totally get people not ripping off stuff. And i'm totally all go for adds. But blocking is for the assholes who are just F-ing obnoxious. The ones that are huge, hard to kill, loud as Fuck that do everything to let you know about their existence?! Is it not enough that they have to pop up above and on top of what i'm trying to do?!
In a way, like everything else, its the assholes that ruin it for everyone.
In a way, like everything else, its the assholes that ruin it for everyone.
This.marurder said:
There is no connection to ad blocking and piracy. I am shoved adds down my mouth, any one can choose to pirate a game. How the hell did you even come to this conclusion?
Oh, and yes I ad block.
Choosing to ignore something is the same as piracy?
So every time I fetch a drink during an ad break I'm the same as a thief?
I wouldn't click the damn things in the first place, and some of the epilepsy-inducing ones that distract from the page's main feature just deserve to be blocked.
And I sigh, misleading OP is misleading.
So every time I fetch a drink during an ad break I'm the same as a thief?
I wouldn't click the damn things in the first place, and some of the epilepsy-inducing ones that distract from the page's main feature just deserve to be blocked.
And I sigh, misleading OP is misleading.
Uhhh... This morning I was on Roosterteeth watching all the latest season of RvB. Right?
I had to watch the halo reach pre order video 19 or so times, for a grand total of 30 seconds a piece.
That wastes my bandwidth, my time, and infuriates me a whole bunch more as i already have it pre ordered.
I had to watch the halo reach pre order video 19 or so times, for a grand total of 30 seconds a piece.
That wastes my bandwidth, my time, and infuriates me a whole bunch more as i already have it pre ordered.
