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What an odd thing to feel bad about. > People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. T

What an odd thing to feel bad about. > People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs. Banksy

javajosh 8y ago
Wonderful quote. The concept I have been playing with I call "consensual communication". We dont allow people to run up to us and shove food in our mouths, and yet we allow information to be shoved into our minds - and as the quote notes, they have the gall to place restrictions on the object of assault.
- xg15 8y ago
  > We dont allow people to run up to us and shove food in our mouths "You can trespass my private roads as you like, you just have to take this new experimental medication and report the results..." - sounds like an intriguing new business model! /s
  - freehunter 8y ago
    That's actually close to reality. A lot of US universities have some kind of for-pay drug research going on. Since college kids are notoriously low on cash, they sign up to get injected with something and report the results afterwards. My university didn't offer it but my sister's did. She made a few bucks getting injected with a trial flu vaccine and reporting if she got sick afterwards.
dredmorbius 8y ago
Actually Sean Tejaratchi. Banky used it with attribution, though that's frequently lost / misstated (as here). https://web.archive.org/web/20120321232424/http://readingfrenzy.com/ledger/2012/03/taking_the_piss_conclusion https://web.archive.org/web/20120321232424/http://readingfre...
Ezhik 8y ago
Personally, it's not primarily about the actual ads, but all the tracking and JavaScript and shady UI patterns. Somebody trying to tell me I should keep all ads on because ads pay for the content? Fuck that, tracking my every move pays for the content, and I want no part of that, even if I lose access to the content. The ad industry wired the consumers to expect things for free to begin with, so I don't know why I should feel any guilt at all for trying to block ads and gigabytes worth of unnecessary and often down right malicious JavaScript code.

javajosh 8y ago

Wonderful quote. The concept I have been playing with I call "consensual communication". We dont allow people to run up to us and shove food in our mouths, and yet we allow information to be shoved into our minds - and as the quote notes, they have the gall to place restrictions on the object of assault.

xg15 8y ago
> We dont allow people to run up to us and shove food in our mouths "You can trespass my private roads as you like, you just have to take this new experimental medication and report the results..." - sounds like an intriguing new business model! /s
- freehunter 8y ago
  That's actually close to reality. A lot of US universities have some kind of for-pay drug research going on. Since college kids are notoriously low on cash, they sign up to get injected with something and report the results afterwards. My university didn't offer it but my sister's did. She made a few bucks getting injected with a trial flu vaccine and reporting if she got sick afterwards.

dredmorbius 8y ago

Actually Sean Tejaratchi. Banky used it with attribution, though that's frequently lost / misstated (as here). https://web.archive.org/web/20120321232424/http://readingfrenzy.com/ledger/2012/03/taking_the_piss_conclusion https://web.archive.org/web/20120321232424/http://readingfre...

Ezhik 8y ago

Personally, it's not primarily about the actual ads, but all the tracking and JavaScript and shady UI patterns. Somebody trying to tell me I should keep all ads on because ads pay for the content? Fuck that, tracking my every move pays for the content, and I want no part of that, even if I lose access to the content. The ad industry wired the consumers to expect things for free to begin with, so I don't know why I should feel any guilt at all for trying to block ads and gigabytes worth of unnecessary and often down right malicious JavaScript code.