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Very good article ! I am genuinely surprised that HN's positively reacts to blog posts like this while massively reacting against ad blocking initiatives. For
by bnegreve 14y ago
Very good article !
I am genuinely surprised that HN's positively reacts to blog posts like this while massively reacting against ad blocking initiatives. For example this HN news thread: France’s second-largest ISP deploys ad blocking via firmware update [1].
Can someone that like this article and dislike [1] explain me.
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5004621 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5004621
- jacques_chester 14y agoAs much as it burns my nose hairs to admit this ... HN is not a hivemind. Different people will react to different things.
- bnegreve 14y agoI agree with this, but I have the feeling that some people have mixed feelings regarding this problem. Hence my (rather precise) question: Can someone that like this article AND dislike [1] explain me.
- smtddr 14y agoWell, I agree with almost everything in this article that the system is designed to keep people unhappy & unhealthy, so that they're constantly buying things to rid themselves of both issues. At the same time, I will never accept the idea of internet-content being filtered at the ISP level. I want 100% of the web-content to reach my computer. There, I will make the decision of what I want to see.
- Kliment 14y agoI am perfectly okay with adblocking, and run a very aggressive adblocker as well as requestpolicy and a click-to-play plugin blocker. That said, I really do not want my ISP to be making these decisions for me.