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> companies that shove ads into users faces ISPs intercepting traffic and injecting ads that neither the user nor the site owner intended, yeah, I can see how
by Shish2k 10y ago
> companies that shove ads into users faces
ISPs intercepting traffic and injecting ads that neither the user nor the site owner intended, yeah, I can see how that could be classed as "shoving ads in people's faces", but "here's a free service with ads attached, please either take both or leave both"? What part of that is "shoving"?
- erikb 10y agoI see your point. But I can decide which part of your service I want to see. If I want my browser to not show the Hacker News header line, am I doing something wrong? No, I don't think so. And if you still try to circumvent my browser config to show it to me anyways then it is shoving it into my face.
- Shish2k 10y agoThat analogy is ineffective because the HN header bar isn't the price that the provider has asked you to pay in exchange for the service. When I walk into a shop I am presented with a similar "here are some objects with prices, please either take the object and pay the price or don't do either". However, it's physically possible for me to decide which part of a transaction I want to take part in. If choose to accept the "taking objects" part of the deal while ignoring the "paying for them" part of the deal, am I doing something wrong? If the shopkeeper then said "hey, you should pay for that", would you have "zero sympathy" for the shopkeeper because they were "shoving capitalism in my face"?