Ads are speech until they are intrusive, until they track you across websites, until they violate your privacy.

It's one thing to have a block of HTML dedicated to ads, and another to have YOUR shit running on my machine WITHOUT my consent.

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tt24 an hour ago | parent [-]

It is with your consent.

You continue to visit these websites.

If you don’t want their code running on your machine, simply don’t send a GET request.

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ericjmorey 19 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

If I buy a book, I'm not required to read any part of it. I'm allowed to control what I read.

	▲	tt24 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You’re allowed to use an adblocker.

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maest 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I assume you forgot the /s.

Otherwise this is a very weak argument. Using the Internet is approximately mandatory in our current society. "Don't use the Internet" is not useful advice.

	▲	tt24 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Sounds like the risk of seeing an advertisement is probably worth the benefit of using the internet then.