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DoubleClick Warns Against Ad-Blocking Browsers

Posted by Zonk on from the are-you-threatening-me? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The end of free Internet content will come when Web browsers start blocking online advertisements by default, a DoubleClick executive has warned. Bennie Smith, the online advertising network's privacy chief, said the popularity of tools like Adblock -- an extension to the Mozilla Firefox browser -- which makes blocking online ads simple was tied to 'a negative vibe against advertising in general'."

3 of 1,399 comments (clear)

  1. Re:cry me a river by AtlanticGiraffe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How the hell did a comment that makes little sense, adds nothing to the discussion AND uses the word 'fuck' four times get moderated to score 4: Insightful?

    We seriously need to do something about this moderation thingy. This is just ridiculous.

  2. hey bennie by wardk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    kiss my ass.

  3. Re:Indeed, this is the free market at work. by tolkienfan · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    My second comment (merely a joke) moderated troll, now my comments don't get moderated.

    So now what? Does the bad karma expire?

    Or is my account now permanently useless?