Of course not.

Users, if you feel any guilt about blocking ads, know that you can choose which apps and domains you want to support through AdClear’s App Management and Domain Whitelist screens. Most of our users do; perhaps because you are level-headed people and not the foaming-at-the-mouth barbarians the media paints you out to be. Framing users like this allows advertisers to say, ‘If we could just be civil we could figure this out.’ This oft-mentioned but never defined ‘civility’ is simply for ad blockers to go away. It’s just a tool to stay in power, as it’s easy to frame calmness as more important than fairness nowadays.

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