It’s possible for choices and actions to be both ethical and unethical at the same time. Some people (like you, I’m supposing by your comment) fool themselves into thinking that what they are doing is totally ethical because some part of it is.
That’s kind of half the picture though. Adblocking and piracy are not done in a vacuum. You typically block ads in response to the unethical practice of hostile design and the abuse of human psychology to be conditioned positively to something through exposure rather than just making a good product. Piracy is often in response to unethical business practices as well.
If none of those unethical forces existed, you can be sure there would be a lot less pirates and adblockers. But in our current world piracy and adblocking are often straight up ethical in relative terms.
I use adblockers and pirate stuff, but I don’t try to fool myself into thinking that it’s an ethically sound thing to do.
Controlling what content is shown on my screen is unethical? Wow.
It’s possible for choices and actions to be both ethical and unethical at the same time. Some people (like you, I’m supposing by your comment) fool themselves into thinking that what they are doing is totally ethical because some part of it is.
That’s kind of half the picture though. Adblocking and piracy are not done in a vacuum. You typically block ads in response to the unethical practice of hostile design and the abuse of human psychology to be conditioned positively to something through exposure rather than just making a good product. Piracy is often in response to unethical business practices as well.
If none of those unethical forces existed, you can be sure there would be a lot less pirates and adblockers. But in our current world piracy and adblocking are often straight up ethical in relative terms.