I really despise being advertised to, and I reserve every right to have my own hardware do whatever I want in the way of changing the data a site sends me before displaying it (as you say, it should be up to me what I see).
If the site wants to run some intrusive thing that monitors whether there are ads being displayed and refuses to send any more data if they aren’t, then fair play and I’ll take my eyeballs elsewhere. If they want to paywall their content so that they don’t need to run ads, then I’ll consider the cost of a subscription (although I’m even more likely to look favourably on the “pay what you want/voluntary support from the keenest for free content for everyone” Patreon type model).
But whatever the case, I feel no compunction about blocking every ad I’m technologically capable of blocking; and I can’t say I have a great depth of respect for nag screens that are so easily circumvented. If you don’t want to serve me content, then actually don’t, but sending a combination of [content + nag screen] is a blob of data that’s easily transformed into just [content].
I really despise being advertised to, and I reserve every right to have my own hardware do whatever I want in the way of changing the data a site sends me before displaying it (as you say, it should be up to me what I see).
If the site wants to run some intrusive thing that monitors whether there are ads being displayed and refuses to send any more data if they aren’t, then fair play and I’ll take my eyeballs elsewhere. If they want to paywall their content so that they don’t need to run ads, then I’ll consider the cost of a subscription (although I’m even more likely to look favourably on the “pay what you want/voluntary support from the keenest for free content for everyone” Patreon type model).
But whatever the case, I feel no compunction about blocking every ad I’m technologically capable of blocking; and I can’t say I have a great depth of respect for nag screens that are so easily circumvented. If you don’t want to serve me content, then actually don’t, but sending a combination of [content + nag screen] is a blob of data that’s easily transformed into just [content].