DoubleClick Warns Against Ad-Blocking Browsers

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'."

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Re:Indeed, this is the free market at work.

[AviLazar]

You were making an argument and basing it on emulating /. If you plan on doing that, then do not give me such answer as "i think you must not know what Usenet is."

Also, many people will not go near usenet - your site will be less popular.

While all those software programs are free - the time to make the code is not free. The maintenance is not free. The bandwidth you propose on using (to emulate something like /.) is insane. So what do all of these things have in common----they cost MONEY!