Google Starts Using Behavioral Ads > Some things to consider

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Re: Some things to consider

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said by BF69:

said by fAcEtIOUs:

The opt-out cookie is not a google.com cookie, it is a doubleclick.net cookie. I allow Google cookies on my systems but not doubleclick.net cookies. So the Google preferred opt-out method wouldn't work.

I could use the Firefox add-on mentioned, but I have a better way. I use the Firefox add-on "Adblock Plus" along with a subscribed filter lists that blocks all Google ads along with Google analytics tracking cookies at thousands of sites. I use Easylist and EasyPrivacy at »easylist.adblockplus.org/

Of course Adblock Plus blocks more than Google ads. It blocks ads from all vendors on just about every site I ever visited.

So basically sites that provide you information and content for FREE you basically fuck them over? Yes ads can be annoying but fact is without a revenue stream the only other option for site to generate revenue is to charge subscriptions. I'd rather not have to pay for every site I want to visit.

Sorry but if I have asite and i'm letting you visit my site for FREE and ad are the way I genrate revenue you don't really have a right to block anything. I mean legally you can, but the "I wish to not be an asshole" law you can't.

I have every right to block whatever content I do not want to be exposed to, including advertisements. Nuff said

I do not believe that you have a reasonable expectation of controlling access to your site unless you control access to it.

If you PUBLISH (to the general public), you have no reasonable expectation that people will download or view all of the content of any particular page.

If your site depends on ad revenue, you need to have enforceable policies in place to get people to sign up to see the ads.

Otherwise, the visitor decides what they view or do not view.

reply to BF69

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Um if it's MY site it's I that dictate the rules not you.

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Shouldn't be that hard.

Maybe a little bit of Javascript that gives people who don't fetch that bit of content a nastygram. Or maybe a bit of beautifully formatted text under where the ad woulda been.

I've been to some sites that do this, You block the ad, and upon loading, it warns you to not block them, and doesn't load the page. The only way to view the page is to unblock the ad, then refresh.
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