There’s been a flurry of activity recently on the Wikimedia Foundation-l mailing list regarding placing adverts onto Wikipedia (and possibly sister projects, too). I’ve already made a post on my vague thoughts behind advertising - but I feel compelled to write about this particular “scandal” - and my view differs from most.
Blocking adverts on web pages is often viewed as immoral, or even stealing. But am I stealing the bandwidth I use when I visit a site and block the adverts?