> Additionally, some apps are only monetized through advertisement, and 3rd party apps don't display them. How do you expect the 1st party to stay in business?
Ad blockers are already a thing. Should they be forbidden?
My position is that if a website uses anti-adblock and you're using an adblock, circumventing it isn't okay. You're free to use a different website.
Now, one could argue that by displaying ads in the first place, using an adblock is circumventing something therefore it isn't okay (basically remove one layer of abstraction from the previous sentence). That's also a fair position, but not mine because of entirely selfish reasons (it's inconvenient to me and non-adblock users are subsidizing my use of those websites).
One could argue that allowing adblock users is a strategic decision in hopes they can spread the use of the website and payoff their "debt" that way. I operate web games and I allow adblock users for that reason.
> That's also a fair position, but not mine because of entirely selfish reasons (it's inconvenient to me and non-adblock users are subsidizing my use of those websites).
That's fair - you are knowingly subsidising adblock users. If you don't want to subsidise adblock users, you're free to use a different site.
Ad blockers are already a thing. Should they be forbidden?