They&#x27;re not stealing anything. You are agreeing to them when you consume ad-supported content. You are free to never use that site again. Yet, you come back because you think the benefits are worth the cost. There are people who don&#x27;t come back and gripe about a different kind of ad: those snuck into paid services by oligopolies. I feel their pain as <i>they</i> are getting shafted by the power the oligopolies have.<p>The rest of you want to freeload and aren&#x27;t getting the freeloading experience you desire. Feel free to try but be responsible enough to admit what you&#x27;re doing. Otherwise, many services that are ad-supported can be replaced with paid ones with more privacy-focused ones than ever post-Snowden. There&#x27;s also the alternative of not using what you won&#x27;t pay for in attention to ads. If you&#x27;re just getting robbed by ads, feel free to give up the content as it had no value to you and was a robbery rather than an exchange.