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Crazyman93 posted...

That's an idiotic take. The fact cable TV has ads is absurd in and of it self WHEN IT ALREADY COSTS SO DAMN MUCH! My mother told me a story of when they first got cable, a relative was over watching a movie, and was rather dismayed there weren't commercials to use to take a leak. Because they were paying to see it on cable. The point being, once upon a time cable didn't have ads.

And I pay for the newspaper, hypothetically anyway, so it's my right as the purchaser of the product to decide which parts of it I read over.

That said, internet ads have become obnoxiously intrusive compared to what they were ten years ago or so. When I was a teenager, ads were usually a banner offering you a product or service to get your attention. Then they morphed into browser slowing monstrosities that had to flash, and play obnoxious videos and automatically expand over the page you're trying to read. Hell, once upon a time the worst ad I could ever see on a non-porn site was for Evony. And only because if someone walked in you had to explain the half naked chick on the side of the screen.

Does that void it being piracy though? It's okay to admit that sometimes piracy is good.