The site is owned and operated by someone, and there are costs associated with its operation. It’s not the same as a billboard on the roadside, since you have to actively go to the site to read its content.
A more apt analogy is to a store, where you can freely walk into the store and browse whatever you want. Some stores might require a membership (Costco/NYTimes) and others might let anyone in, with distributors paying the store for prime real estate of their product (Walmart/CNN).
In either case, these stores may use Bluetooth/WiFi technology to closely monitor you when you go to their stores, and they may set requirements against masks to anonymize your activity in their stores.
I’m not anti-adblocker by any means, but we have no choice but to accept preventions imposed by site operators, and if we accept terms of service that include not utilizing adblockers while browsing their sites, we may be subject to whatever legal impositions they apply.
The site is owned and operated by someone, and there are costs associated with its operation. It’s not the same as a billboard on the roadside, since you have to actively go to the site to read its content.
A more apt analogy is to a store, where you can freely walk into the store and browse whatever you want. Some stores might require a membership (Costco/NYTimes) and others might let anyone in, with distributors paying the store for prime real estate of their product (Walmart/CNN).
In either case, these stores may use Bluetooth/WiFi technology to closely monitor you when you go to their stores, and they may set requirements against masks to anonymize your activity in their stores.
I’m not anti-adblocker by any means, but we have no choice but to accept preventions imposed by site operators, and if we accept terms of service that include not utilizing adblockers while browsing their sites, we may be subject to whatever legal impositions they apply.