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* Use browser extensions and hosts lists to banish them from your life.
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Fundamental premise of such questions is that good or useful content would not exist unless it is commercially motivated. We fundamentally reject this idea. Have you seen Wikipedia?
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In the world where every page load assaults you with concentrated attempts to control your mind and decisions it makes (which do work, regardless of how much you think they don't), blocking ads is the right thing to do.
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{{blockquote|text=People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.<br> You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. <br> Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.|author=[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/461383-people-are-taking-the-piss-out-of-you-everyday-they Banksy]}}
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===Donate instead===
If you want to support content creators, donate instead. Most ads pay so extremely little that donating almost any amount
=Why block ads?=
Most ads found online actively harm your privacy by both collecting information on you and using previously collected information about you to exert control over your decisions.
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