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That's like saying bank robberies being illegal mean that going to the bank is illegal.
Honey is unlawful because of what they DO by changing those URLs and cookies, e.g enriching themselves at the expense of creators.
Your analogy doesn’t work at all.
If one of the core harms is the removal of income and tracking, ad blockers fall into this category. Ad blockers very explicitly remove these things. The harm is not “Honey stole my income” it’s “Honey removed my tracking and Honey added their tracking.” Read the Legal Eagle case.
The key point they were making is that uBO isn't adding their own affiliate links and stealing revenue they haven't earned, unlike Paypal.
I wonder if those other “spammy” adblockers do precisely this. Insert affiliate links.
Doesn’t Brave already swap some ads for their own?
I have read the case.
I don't enrich myself by using an adblocker. And I certainly don't enrich myself at other's expense.