Exactly. In theory they are effectual, if people actually did it...
I'm a big proponent of top down climate change policy to force change as opposed to hoping if we virtue signal enough people will be shamed into driving a bit less etc.
With regards to climate change, definitely not. I just wanted to highlight that it's a similar mechanic at play. Perhaps I phrased it oddly.
With regards to Ads I don't take as much a hard line approach as yourself (I remember our last discussion!). I'm very pro ad blocker use but not to go as far as banning them in any way.
Something I've been thinking about is sending a header to websites informing them I'm going to block their ads so they decide not to send me the content if they don't want to. I feel no entitlement to their content as they should not feel any entitlement to what code gets to run on my machine once it reaches me. I might expand on this in a blog post some time soon but it's probably closer to an art project than something actually viable.
> Something I've been thinking about is sending a header to websites informing them I'm going to block their ads so they decide not to send me the content if they don't want to. I feel no entitlement to their content as they should not feel any entitlement to what code gets to run on my machine once it reaches me. I might expand on this in a blog post some time soon but it's probably closer to an art project than something actually viable.
An advantage of this is we'd skip the whole ad blocker and anti ad blocker charade and gain a metric ton of performance back.
I'm impressed. I don't think I ever remember individual usernames.
>Something I've been thinking about is sending a header to websites informing them I'm going to block their ads so they decide not to send me the content if they don't want to.
I've actually played with similar ideas in the past (my more moderate days). But my philosophy at this point is that they can choose to give me the data or not give me the data. And I'm free to do with it as I please as long as I don't distribute it without permission. And I'm even softening up on that limitation.
I'm a big proponent of top down climate change policy to force change as opposed to hoping if we virtue signal enough people will be shamed into driving a bit less etc.