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Then don't? Just ask for a donation if you think the website is useful and enjoyable (I'm cross referencing posts alot in this article, but see what I said earlier about NexusMods).

I don't expect people will want to pay just to log into your site and that's not a business model they want to use. But if I can pay an optional $0.50C for every site I regularly frequent to skip their ads. Which assists them in providing a web service or content I want to consume. That's the road I will take.

I want to help the content creators but I won't consume their advertisement material.



How about when you see a site owner who explicitly tells you not to enter his website if you have adblock, you just leave?

His content is not worth it anyways, so why do you need another blocker to block his adblocker blocker?


Hm,

I guess that's probably the most polite response, at least.

The main motivation I can see for an ad blocker-blocker-blocker would be for like, if the ad-blocker-blocker has claims than using an ad-blocker is immoral. Because, well, it could be sorta insulting.

But if it's just a statement of like, "don't use our website with an ad blocker please" (and not displaying the content), then, using an ad-(blocker^3) is I think probably rather rude.

Probably not outside of one's rights, but still, rude.




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