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Story: Online ad-blocking attacked
Posted by: PRAVEEN DALAL (Thursday 23 June 2005, 10:47 AM)
ONE SIDED AFFAIR
The Internet is not a medium to harrass people and create nuisance by unwelcomed ads. The privacy of the surfers is usually violated by the tracking cookies that ultimately results in spam mails and unsolicited advertisements. It would not be unreasonble to install ad-blocking mechanisms.
Now for every service a consumer is required to pay. It may be domain name, web site space, etc. It would be easy to argue that they must also be made free absolutely. Even when these services are provided partially free, some trade-off in the form of ads is there. A person can have a web site but it is accompanied with ads.
The argument against ad-blocking is not genuine and reasonable and the content provider must have means and options to remove the unnecesary and annoying ads.
The increase in cost is a misconception especially where the "content providers" are not commercial but for personal purposes.
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The Internet is not a medium to h... PRAVEEN DALAL -
If the advertisers did not seek to prevent us read... Anonymous -
I watch DVDs rather than TV to avoid the adve... OffBeatMammal -
As nobody is forcing me to use ad-blocking, which... Anonymous
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I have to access the internet via GPRS throug... Mark, UK
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I don't mind ads -- as long as they are not OBNOXI... Jon Cverna
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Internet ads cost the reader a lot in paying for t... M. Gorman
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Jon is right.
I personally also don't mind ads if... Jerm
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" the 25c newspaper would cost $5," - but in a 25c... Anonymous
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Internet advertisers can kiiss my ass. I pay for... Heywood Jablowme
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I agree with the article in the most part - p... Matt
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I don't mind the sidebar or banner ads l... David Wright -
Advertising is beyond the point of ridiculous thes... Chris Davis
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Ah, it's the usual cry from businesses which wish... Marcus Brodeur
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Baloney! My newspaper ads do not 1) steal CPU cycl... Steve Jones
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