Using an adblocker is what you can do, just like selling your data is what the company can do. If you think it's ok to not experience ads, you justify people using ads to collect and sell your data. So you justify the selfish acts against you through your actions. When you choose to act in a self interested way, you justify someone else acting in a self interested way. The sum of everyone's thoughts on their personal responsibility creates culture, and this "next quarters profits" culture that we live in is an extension of the very ideas you have expressed. You can argue these companies are taking more than they give, and they are, but your position of personal responsibility is worth considering. If you don't pay for your social media, someone else will. If you don't pay for your news papers, someone else will. If you don't donate to your politicians, someone else will. If nobody pays for high quality investigative journalism you don't get high quality investigative journalism. On the topic of news papers, if content is not paid for it is that the content itself that becomes an engine of money making. What's worse is the conflict of interest. You don't have to agree, but we are both effectively parasites. If you do not understand that you are choosing ignorance. If you understand that, you just don't want to feel uncomfortable and are in denial. If you take your actions and thoughts and project them onto everyone else, the websites you enjoy wouldn't exist. Kantian ethics is the foundation of the west. Reciprocity is an extremely important consideration. This is why the west has higher trust societies, and much of the rest of the world does not. This was core christian ethos before it was corrupted by the GOP. This is fundamental to how societies operate. If everyone gives without taking, there is enough to take when you need it. If everyone takes without giving, there is nothing left to take.
Life isn't about what you take, it's about what you give. I am a little sad there is no wide spread doxxing of the owners of adtech/data broker companies to force the ethics discussion in congress. When you visit a website, you don't know what you are giving up or the price you are paying. Poorly specified contracts are also unethical. You can equivocate to try to justify the behavior, but that doesn't change that for most of the web, you are provided a web page in exchange for ads.Ĭompanies are taking your data and selling it because they can, and you don't know the value of your data, so that is arguably theft and almost certainly unethical too. If we took the idea of using ad block and made it a rule that everyone must follow, websites would not be able to fund themselves because they fund themselves by showing ads which creates a contradiction and therefore using adblock is unethical. The point is applying Kant's categorical imperative. > Is it unethical to use a computer that isn’t associated with you? From a practical point of view implementing ads for the visually impaired probably costs more than the ads gain, and therefore a company would rather not, but if a company implemented an accommodation so that the ad could be experienced by the impaired person, then I would argue not experiencing that ad is unethical.
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You wouldn't expect someone who's blind to get a free meal at a restaurant just because they are blind.
> Is it unethical to use accessibility tools that cannot see visual ads?Īrguably, in a black and white sense I think so. It has a touchscreen display to order from, you must pay with a card or ApplePay. You go into a small cafe for some splice. It exists for the avatar to make your life better, not for you, it robs you of choice and agency it does not agree with. As you exit the car going into the supermarket, the supermarket is now a construct of the avatar not the bricks and mortar building it was when you were growing up. It then morphs into a dancing dashboard mannequin, a personal avatar, spouting nonsense, getting on your nerves, while its technoneurons spread, root-like, tapped into you. And your sleep habits, where you live, random visual memories it may find useful anytime in the future, has a guess at how much you'd like to spend using personal records, what pets you have or would like, family, a bunch more. While it's there it takes note of any deep concerns you may not know you have. Imagine a world where the advertising billboard you walk past reaches into your head and takes a photo of your shopping list.
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