I hang up on telemarketers with no qualms of being impolite. I don't read content behind paywalls (and don't complain about them - it is readily apparent that I'm not in their target demographic).
I treat people that know me courteously and they like me.
Telemarketers are a whole different story: You never asked them to contact you. : )
Websites are a whole different story. You decided to visit them. Once you are on their site, they decide the rules. (As long as they are not doing anything illegally.)
Also note that I sometimes choose to block ads even if it
Wait, what? Where was I unpolite? More to the point: if anything is rude, it's tricking users into looking at ads instead of the content they were promised when they clicked on a link.
By trying to decide what is accepted behaviour for web site owners to do on their own web sites. (Apologies if I misunderstood your point.)
> More to the point: if anything is rude, it's tricking users into looking at ads instead of the content they were promised when they clicked on a link.
Do you also complain about advertising at shopping centers, bus stations, airports etc?
> By trying to decide what is accepted behaviour for web site owners to do on their own web sites.
The point of Adblock is not to control what web site owners do on their own web sites, but only to control how I experience that content. As I wrote in my OP, "Adblock is one damn easy way to improve your own user experience. [emphasis added]"
Web site owners are welcome to try and get their visitors to look at ads. Their visitors are welcome, in turn, to take measures to block those ads.
> Do you also complain about advertising at shopping centers, bus stations, airports etc?
Yes, as a matter of fact - rather, I don't complain about it but I do try to avoid going to those places for just that reason. However, whereas it's hard to block out billboards in external locations where one is physically present (unless one is willing to accept a Steve Mann-level of technological mediation), it's quite easy to block ads on web pages that are served freely into my own browser, which is installed on my own computer.
