>Do you not believe that content creators have the right to set the terms upon which their content may be consumed?
>you don't believe that you have the right to say "you may read this article, provided that you also display this ad"?
No.
>What makes you think you have the right to the content, without abiding its terms?
The server has already sent it to me. The data is already in my computer. I can do whatever I want with it. Does a magazine publisher get mad if I rip out the advertisement pages and throw them in the trash?
>You're violating the contract you implicitly agree to when you visit the site.
Nobody implicitly agrees to anything. Is that even a thing? People simply open up sites and consume whatever's on them.
>Of course it's stealing.
>it's clearly stealing
That's about as dishonest as claiming piracy is stealing. Making copies of something doesn't subtract the original from its owner, therefore it is obviously not stealing. It's called artificial scarcity for a reason: it doesn't actually exist. Receiving ad-loaded copies of something and then using a computer program to remove the noise is not stealing, it is user experience improvement.
No.
>What makes you think you have the right to the content, without abiding its terms?
The server has already sent it to me. The data is already in my computer. I can do whatever I want with it. Does a magazine publisher get mad if I rip out the advertisement pages and throw them in the trash?
>You're violating the contract you implicitly agree to when you visit the site.
Nobody implicitly agrees to anything. Is that even a thing? People simply open up sites and consume whatever's on them.
>Of course it's stealing. >it's clearly stealing
That's about as dishonest as claiming piracy is stealing. Making copies of something doesn't subtract the original from its owner, therefore it is obviously not stealing. It's called artificial scarcity for a reason: it doesn't actually exist. Receiving ad-loaded copies of something and then using a computer program to remove the noise is not stealing, it is user experience improvement.