Ad Blockers Should Not Be Used

Sorry for the late reply, been very busy with school, third degree felony charges, etc. Sure ad blockers hurt the online industry, but that is not reason enough to stop using them. Me using Ubuntu linux hurts Microsoft, but that does not mean I should have to use Windows. It comes down to the user choosing what content he or she wishes to view. They are the ones paying for their bandwidth, they should make the ultimate decision on what content they want to use it on. It would be absurd if everyone was forced to download, for example, Open Office, but they don't have to because it's their decision how to use their purchased bandwidth. My problem is not the source, but the content from the source. All it says is that it blocks important features, it not once ever mentions what those features are. How do they know what features are important to what users? I'm not asking for more valid sources, I'm asking for some detail. What features, why are they important? Having to use workarounds is not justification to not use ad blockers. If that reasoning were good, where would we be today? "I'm sorry Mr. Edison, your light bulb will just take too much effort, we'll stick to what we know best, what just works." Plus the things I mentioned we're not workarounds. If you call those work around then I guess you call putting CDs in the CD drive is a work around. Adblock Plus does not block ads by default, that is not its purpose. Scripts have to be installed for it to work. Just like a CD drive does not contain data, it simply uses data you put into it. Adblock uses the data you put into it. Also, because of the scripts and customization I have done, the sites mentioned do not look like my opponent describes them, they look just fine. Just because some people are not computer illiterate, does not mean tech savvy users should suffer. Some people do not know how to drive semi trucks, but we do not get rid of those. The fact is some people are stupid when it comes to computer, they'll install what every they can get their hand on then be like "lol wat how'd i get a virus lol". They are, for the most part, not innocent. Let me put it this way: PEBKAC (Problem exists between keyboard and chair) Their are many things one must download from the internet. There are risks, but we still do it. Perhaps I want a word processor because Microsoft Word is too expensive. A Google search will turn up tons of word processors, some of which may be virus and spyware ridden. It's up to the downloader to determine what they want their bandwidth used for and decide what to download. Just because aunt Betty may get trojan.mecrosoftword.exe and think it's safe, does not mean tech savvy users should use ad blocking technology. When I pasted the URL, debate.org broke the link. I had to use TinyURL because without it the link would not have worked. It does not matter if ads take up 1KB of bandwidth or 200GBs or bandwidth, it's still up to the person who paid for the bandwidth to determine how to use it. It would not be ok for you to buy 20 pounds of rice, then for me to come along and tell you how you have to cook it. It's not ok for you to tell someone how to use their bandwidth. Most mobile phones and PDAs have very weak processors. When viewing an ad ridden site, a main concern is CPU usage. Your home computer may be able to load a flash ad in no time, but the 250Mhz processor in a PDA will probably kneel over and die. There's a common argument that is used in favor of piracy, it can be used in this situation as well. The people that pirate games for the most part do not take revenue from game makers because if they couldn't pirate it, odds are they wouldn't of bought it anyway. In order for a site to make money off their ads, they need to be clicked. Users that are tech savvy enough to get proper ad blockers are not the kind of people that would click on the majority of ads out there. It's the non tech savvy people that don't use ad blockers in the first place who generate click revenue. A tech savvy person knows sponsored Google results from the regular results and would never click on them, so having an ad blocker block them does not hurt that industry. The same with other ads. Again sorry if this seems hurried, I've got a lot of homework I still need to do tonight.