Is It Haram To Use Ad Blockers And Download From Youtube?
Using adblocker is not fair. Because it’s also considered as haq talfi. Almost all the sites are working with the money that are collected using ads and not all the sites collect data for selling purposes. They collect data so that they can show us appropriate ads (ads related to our interest). Also there collecting data is fair because it’s on us w eather we allow “cookies” or not. Almost 90% of ads are views based (website owner will be get paid according to views of ads). Suppose everyone is using adblocker, website owner will be paid amount 0. As sir Faisal discussed that website owner knows which person opens his site with adblocker, he can also refuse to open their site. But I don’t think this argument is solid. The same argument I can give in the case of piracy. Microsoft knows that who’s is using its pirated windows with dummy activation keys. Microsoft also knows which are the sites which are selling pirated version of their softwares. Adobe also one of the biggest tech company knows the same. They can forcefully block these sites by requesting Internet Service Providers. So my counter question is that “can we say using Microsoft pirated software is not haraam”. The same is the case with youtube videos, Google (owner of YouTube) knows which are the third party sites which are used for downloading. Google is also an Internet Service Provider. Google can directly ban these sites with these terms. So its mean is not that we can download. If someone is not reporting in police station does it mean your stealing is legal. There is also one thing with downloading YouTube videos. YouTube mobile app has the default button of downloading videos but these downloads are only available on app with offline. So by playing these videos you will not be shown ads within the YouTube videos. So using this feature is only fair as YouTube is itself providing.
JazakAllah Mr. Umer Qureshi, This is somewhat unrelated, but is there an expectation that when one confirms that they have read ‘terms of use’ and agreed to them that this is truly the case? Would it be explicitly haram for someone to have claimed having done, even though it’s widespread common practice for ‘terms of use’ to be ignored?