how-to block ads
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Thrudd
join:2004-06-21
Mississauga, ON
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There is also the issue of who is paying for the bandwidth, what with caps and such from more and more ISPs .... unlimited, uh yeah, right...
It costs ME money to see THEIR ad so if they don't waste my money to look at their ad then I wont block them, else I will. Well it is either that or we start back charging BW usage to those ad houses that really hog our now more limited and costly BW.
Oooo, higher speed but with CAPs we can use it up in less then a day? Geee, we really wanted that didn't we? | |
Jason Levine
Premium
join:2001-07-13
USA
| said by Thrudd  :It costs ME money to see THEIR ad so if they don't waste my money to look at their ad then I wont block them, else I will. Not a good argument unless you are viewing someone's ads out of the blue. In the case of ads on a website, you are requesting a page from them. They are returning it and, in order to cover costs or perhaps even make a meager profit, are attaching an ad to the page.
Now, so long as this ad is minimal in size and intrusiveness (think Google's text ads), this arrangement is a pretty fair balance. It's only when the ads get very large (e.g. video ads) or very intrusive (either in the sense of spyware or in the sense of distracting flash animations) that the arrangement turns unfair. (In which case, I'd say that selective ad blocking would be a reasonable approach.)
In any case, it's not so much "they me money to view any ad so just block them all", but "their ads are annoyingly large/intrusive so I'll block those." | |
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