Originally Posted by Neuro
To the rest: You contribute nothing to the add-on community, and you never gave support to WoWI before while draining their resources, so your loss will be a positive influence on the fortunes of the addon community, if only for you not leeching resources that would otherwise go towards keeping this and other legitimate sites up and running.
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Aahh... leechers and 'resource drainers' everywhere!
The problem in this ethical argumentation is:
If you use ads as a business model for your website you are in fact leeching the bandwidth of the user which visits the site. This costs bandwidth, time (did you ever look at this 'contacting ...ads server' line below?) and you are making money with an unsuspecting user which didn't give you approval to do so.
In this way, websites like WoWI and Curse are in no way better (from an ethical point of view) than WoWMatrix.
You as a user can protect yourself from this leeching by using Firefox addons like AdBlockPlus and NoScript (best is to combine them).
Well, this will result in WoWI not generating any money and ultimately the site will go down. But we will be finally free of leechers. And this is the ultimate goal. The goal to end all goals. Right? Hurrraaayyy!