By this logic, muting TV commercials is also piracy.
circumvented the trust I placed in the OS (to make the internet available for ad delivery whenever feasible)
That's not something you can or should be able to "trust" the OS to do. It's not your hardware. If you don't want "pirates" running your app, then have it refuse to run unless it can download ads. Don't pretend you have any right to dictate whether the user is allowed to disable Internet access.
circumvented the trust I placed in the OS (to make the internet available for ad delivery whenever feasible)
That's not something you can or should be able to "trust" the OS to do. It's not your hardware. If you don't want "pirates" running your app, then have it refuse to run unless it can download ads. Don't pretend you have any right to dictate whether the user is allowed to disable Internet access.