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If blocking ads is piracy, then ad-viewing is equated to money and showing ads while either failing to provide the service the user wanted or not providing any at all is theft.
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This is a bit of a chicken and an egg scenario. Who pays first? The user, the content creator, or the content host?
I couldn't care less. If my adblocker is that final straw that caused a company to go out of business, brings on the collapse of the internet as a whole, and ultimately the breakdown of western civilization, then all of it deserves to die. With that knowledge, I'd still update by block lists and donate to adblocking projects.
The user "pays" the creator and host at the same time by watching an ad, so it depends on when it plays. Not sure what you're getting at.