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Does that then make somebody with an ad blocker a thief? Because I don't like the sound of that at all.

• diminoten 14y ago
  Why not? It'd be even less thievery than stealing, say, a toothpick from a restaurant, but what's the effective difference?
• alttab 14y ago
  These days you could simply cover the right side of your monitor with a small piece of cardboard and never see ads again. OR - simply don't look. A part of me thinks non-adword based advertising is going to implode because we are creating a generation of internet users that have been trained through high-use to simply ignore ads.
  • kaybe 14y ago
    A solution (e.g. used in newspapers) is to make the ads like normal content (just saying "ad" above in fine print). (On the other hand, I have trouble reading the webpage of a big electronics store because their whole site looks like an obnoxious ad and is filtered by my brain.. )
• javert 14y ago
  Yes. I don't like it either, but you can't have your pie and eat it, too.