KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to antdude
Re: France's ISP deploys ad blocking via firmware update This is bad, Very bad. Because it removes the control from the customer and places it with the ISP. Also when ISPs start blocking it takes things down a potentially dark path.
What happens when a big ad network calls up the ISP and offers seven or even ten figures to have their network exempted? You can bet the execs would cave instantly to the "free money".
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 BlackbirdBuilt for SpeedPremium
join:2005-01-14
Fort Wayne, IN
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| said by Kearnstd:This is bad, Very bad. Because it removes the control from the customer and places it with the ISP. Also when ISPs start blocking it takes things down a potentially dark path. ... +1. I block ads routinely using several different tools... but it's because I choose to, not because somebody else decides for me what to block. I believe in freely-available information on the Internet connections at user sites, ads included. I don't want either a Great Wall of China or a Great Wall of ISP interfering in any way with user access, even on a default basis that might be opted out of. If the ISP wants to offer ad blocking as an option for the user to choose, that's their choice as a business... but the potential for abuse or bribed bias will nevertheless exist. As you noted, the precedent of an ISP blocking information selectively is a dangerous path to embark upon...
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OZOPremium
join:2003-01-17
kudos:2 | reply to Kearnstd
said by Kearnstd:This is bad, Very bad. Because it removes the control from the customer and places it with the ISP. Also when ISPs start blocking it takes things down a potentially dark path.
It's dangerous, because it leads to a censorship. It must be prevented (stopped) before it will be developed into a tool to control of what information could be accessed by public.
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