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"People think this is some sort of fancy "Ad Block Plus" -- it's not." Uh... http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/over-300-businesses-now-whitelisted-on-ad

by Kurtz79 11y ago

"People think this is some sort of fancy "Ad Block Plus" -- it's not." Uh... http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/over-300-businesses-now-whitelisted-on-adblock-plus-10-pay-to-play/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/over-300-businesses-...

s_dev 11y ago
A browser plug-in modifying/controlling traffic. Acceptable. An ISP modifying/controlling traffic. Dangerous precedent. What makes it different in my view is that in one scenario the end user is in control in the other the ISP is in control.
- qb45 11y ago
  > An ISP modifying/controlling traffic. Dangerous precedent. Some ISPs have already been adding ads. The only precedent here is that those guys are removing them instead. Maybe we will live to see times when ads injected by ISP1 end up filtered by ISP2 and replaced with others by ISP3, all within a single TCP stream :)
  - Buge 11y ago
    This is why we need to switch to https.