Ads suck. Are ad blockers worse?

Ad-blockers have created an existential crisis for the internet, so Google and Facebook are fighting back. But are they fighting fair? Lou wonders how we got here in the first place and ponders the ethics of ad-blocking with an Oxford philosopher and YouTuber Casey Neistat. Sources & Further Reading: Growth of Ad Blockers: https://www.emarketer.com/Article/Ad-Blocker-Use-Grows-Publishers-Face-New-Challenges/1016076 Dr. Douglas on Morality/Ethics of Ad Blocking: http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/whats-the-moral-difference-between-ad-blocking-and-piracy/ Kantian Ethics: http://www.csus.edu/indiv/g/gaskilld/ethics/kantian%20ethics.htm Google, Facebook & the Ad Industry: https://www.emarketer.com/Article/Google-Facebook-Tighten-Grip-on-US-Digital-Ad-Market/1016494 Google on Chrome Update: https://support.google.com/webtoolsanswer/7308033?hl=en https://blog.chromium.org/2018/02/how-chromes-ad-filtering-works.html Banned Ads (via Coalition for Better Ads): https://www.betterads.org/standards/ Electronic Frontier Foundation on Google’s Ad Filter: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/chromes-ad-filter-much-ado-about-nothing Josh Marshall on Clickbait: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/theres-a-digital-media-crash-but-no-one-will-say-it CREDITS Writer: Louis Foglia Editor: m.cho Researcher: Dushyant Naresh Follow Beme on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bemeapp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialbeme/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beme/