Am I obligated to look at every billboard by the road or can I not get up and leave or at least mute commercials on TV?
Just as easily as you can scroll past an ad on a page
Why should I have my computer use my bandwidth against my data cap so that a company paying someone other than me can show me an ad?
Why should someone have to pay for your ability to access that data? Your isp isn’t sending that site money for you to be able to access it. Someone has to cover costs.
Frankly data caps are bullshit but that doesn’t help the current situation.
The way I see it is that the host is getting paid for giving the opportunity to show an ad.
Except you are denying them that opportunity.
The exchange is between the company hosting the content and the company advertising the product, not the end user.
So an advertiser should pay for functionally nothing?
Let’s go on a hypothetical journey. Tomorrow a switch is flipped and everyone in the world is blocking ads the same as you. How are the web designers and content creators getting paid now? Ad revenue dries up because it’s pointless to pay for a thing you’ll never get. Those employees are not going to continue to get paychecks because the site is just an expense now. This should not be difficult to understand.