We don't have to justify it. We simply don't want to see ads. That's the end of it. The second they insist on showing us ads despite our preferences, their software becomes malware and will be blocked.
And nobody is "taking" anything off anyone's plate. They're the ones sending us free stuff bundled with ads. We're just deleting the noise. Just like ripping ads out of magazines and throwing them away.
They do so hoping that I'm gonna look at the ads. I'm not obligated to make it happen.
Replace "see ads" with "pay money." Pirates are thieves and content theft is piracy.
> Completely screw over small businesses and screw the content creators. On a venture capitalist forum
Then please try to screw VCs (not innocent people in developing world that want to see something for 1GB data per month and they lose so much money for ads). Sure please bill the VCs.
Yes, the hypocrisy is unreal.
Yes.
> it's to cause people to feel a sense of fear/loss/inadequacy that they previously didn't and then present the product as a solution
Maybe a bit.
But, these days I think the real reason is the corrupctive influence ad money buys. Major media platforms censor at the whim of their advertisers. Content providers also do so.