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My argument is that you shouldn't access other people's content without respecting their wishes. Simple as that. Yes, you can do whatever you want to your prop
by Denzel 9y ago
My argument is that you shouldn't access other people's content without respecting their wishes. Simple as that.
Yes, you can do whatever you want to your property. But you can't do whatever you want to other people's property unless they explicitly consent. (That's sort of what laws are there for...) And these people aren't explicitly consenting.
Also, you didn't answer my question. Where is the bias that you're seeing? When I'm saying let the ad industry die if it need die, I fail to see this implicit bias you're speaking of.
- vespa_1933 9y agoSo, which argument are you trying to make? Respect the content creator's wishes or let the ad industry die? Would it make sense to you that those are largely exclusive positions? If you work for a company that profits from an advertising platform and you argue that the logical extension of an ad blocker is a content blocker all you are doing is strongly asserting the intellectual property rights of your employer. What you imply when you make that argument is that users must acquiesce to your TOS as this hypothetical content blocker is, on its face, absurd. If you wanted to clarify your position further, perhaps you could state to this community whether or not you would support the extension of the DMCA to ad-blockers? Should it be illegal to use one? This would go a long way towards clarifying your positions which, up until now, are somewhat confusing - i.e., it's much simpler for us to conclude that you argue for advertising networks simply because you work for one.
- Denzel 9y agoThose two arguments are not mutually exclusive.
- vespa_1933 9y agoThus the use of the term 'largely'.
- mcbits 9y agoIf web sites started serving an HTTP header saying "browsers with ad blockers are not welcome to view this content", I would allow my browser to honor that request. That's more convenient than solving the AI problem of identifying and filtering out all the garbage content that exists for the sole purpose of drawing eyeballs to ads. Just tell me up front that it's garbage.
- bradknowles 9y agoI submit that the most valuable thing being sold here is my eyeballs. And the content provider is auctioning them off to the highest bidder via the ad networks. So, if the content providers and ad networks want to work that way, they need to respect my choice to be more selective in how my eyeballs are being sold. If they don't want to do that, then they can choose to go out of business.