Do you consider this technique “BAD”?

Question

Sometimes you need to skip execution of part of a method under certain non-critical error conditions. You can use exceptions for that, but exceptions generally are not

Answer 1

You can use exceptions for that, but exceptions generally are not recommended in normal application logic, only for abnormal situations.

Nothing's wrong with using exceptions. Exceptions are part of application logic. The guideline about exceptions is that they should be relatively rare at run time.