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Ask Slashdot: To AdBlock Or Not To AdBlock?
Is there an acceptable compromise to behavioral targeting? On the one hand, I don't want to be profiled by unscrupulous advertisers. On the other hand, I feel that the advertiser is the middleman between the things I care about (content) and the dollars that support those things. My compromise is to take a page out of BF Skinner's book, Walden Two, and view the situation as a sort of absurd behaviorist experiment. Basically, I Adblock everything, but whitelist the sites I support. Is this too much? Not enough? What should individuals do protect themselves, if anything at all?
This, exactly this.
This is a bullshit response, and attitude. Given that response then you must also believe that you must get and use a credit card because that's the way banks make money.... Utter bullshit. How about just block the ads and watch the creative people at company A come up with another way to make money or be gone....same for the web sites that use it.
Wake pawned person!
It means you want to provide something for nothing. You want to run a website that costs money to operate, but you do not want to pay for it.
It's not stealing. It's not a crime. But it is childish and hypocritical.
"But I want them to see my content." waa, waa. The grown up, principled thing to do would be to stop expecting people to pay for your wants.
That's okay though. Everybody wants someone else to pay. But the old "I can't afford it" or "I'm providing a benefit, I shouldn't have to pay" or "my content is important, and a little ad or 2 saves having to restrict it to people who will pay me directly" is just unprincipled crap. Just admit you want to don't want to pay for your actions rather than coming up with ridiculous rationalizations.
What part of "a well regulated militia" do you not understand?
well the problem is most 'user sponsored' public radio is biased center left because it gets a lot of its funding from the federal government. Smart listening requires one to assume that ALL outlets are biased to their self interests at the very least, and are also likely using their pulpits to push their brand of politics.