I have and will never ever pay one red cent to any company to watch videos for the purpose of entertainment outside of specific creators making high quality content that I personally enjoy. You can not make me. I have zero (0) moral compunction on the subject. I will explore every legal avenue from adblockers to television antennas to checking out DVDs from a local library. Entertainment is a cesspool of propagandizing morrally corrupt profiteers (independent of any race or identity, it is a conspiracy of greed). Weep and gnash your teeth. If every other legal avenue is exhausted I will imagine new Top Cat episodes in my head. You cannot stop me.
Too late, you already did pay, because we’re all funding the library. ;) I’m wildly in favor of funding the library, BTW, and it’s a great place to find entertainment! Most libraries are lending e-books these days. They should start lending streaming movies too…
I personally consider myself to have lots of moral compunction on this subject, and I do not buy any rhetoric that adblockers are immoral in any way. My morals include not breaking copyright and also being fine with adblockers, and I think these things co-exist. I like ads approximately the same amount as almost everyone, which is to say not much. I want content creators to get paid, especially the good ones. I’m fine with paying for great content. I’m fine with advertisers advertising, within reasonable bounds. I’m not okay with the idea that turning my head away from an ad I didn’t ask for implies I’m doing something bad.
