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Websites that reject ad-blocker readers don't deserve your clicks
Ad-blockers are controversial, but are just as much a fact of life as ads are. But now some sites are preventing users with active ad-blockers from accessing their content -- a controversial practice not least because of the security implications, but also as it falls foul of privacy laws for an entire continent. Elephant in the room: ads keep websites free for everyone to access, but they also keep writers and content creators in business because ads are the driving force behind our wages.
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My visits to Forbes and Wired have gone from ~15-20 times a week to zero. Sorry, but you're not the only way to get news online, and I'm not compromising my computers security, making navigation much slower, and paying for additional data so you can show me ads I don't care about.