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What's new is that people defend enforced advertisement. Nobody is gonna complain if you close your eyes when ads pop up on your TV.
by diskcat 11y ago
What's new is that people defend enforced advertisement. Nobody is gonna complain if you close your eyes when ads pop up on your TV.
- meritt 11y agoAnd you can ignore online ads too (as most of us do). However the similar analogy here is what ReplayTV and Tivo did in the early 2000s -- Provided people with the ability to completely skip those advertisements. ReplayTV went bankrupt due to lawsuits; Tivo removed the adskip feature. https://www.eff.org/cases/newmark-v-turner https://www.eff.org/cases/newmark-v-turner I'm not really trying to defend advertising per-se but I'm trying to point out this isn't a new problem, however the level of entitlement which people feel definitely appears to have increased.
- rosser 11y agoYeah, I guess I do feel entitled not to have my browsing habits tracked, dissected, and correlated by actors with demonstrably unclean hands. Guilty as charged.
- meritt 11y agoWe're actually on the same page here (we deserve a fundamental right to privacy) but, like most Bernie supporters, you lack the ability to discern the shades of grey between black and white.
- IanCal 11y agoWhen you see that adblock has stopped an advert, do you leave the page? Would you use an extension that enforced this?
- Jordrok 11y agoYes, but there's still nothing preventing someone from DVRing a TV show and then manually fast forwarding through the commercials. I'm sure advertisers would love to put a stop to that too, but it really can't be done unless you go to extreme measures to remove control from the end user and trample over the legitimate use cases. If advertisers do find some way to prevent "active" ad blocking, the next step will be to download an entire page, ads and all, and then strip out the useless bits. This would even have the side effect of inflating download counts in comparison to actual views.