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Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground?
An anonymous reader writes "Computerworld asks: What will happen if big advertisers declare AdBlock Plus a clear and present danger to online business models? Hint: it will probably involve lawyers. From the article: 'Could browser ad blocking one day become so prevalent that it jeopardises potentially billions of dollars of online ad revenue, and the primary business models of many online and new media businesses? If so, it will inevitably face legal attack.'"
Now's your time to shine!
Then they'll begin placing captchas in their advertisements, to ensure that you've read the ad before providing the real content.
And then developers will add OCR to AdBlock...
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
Dairy cattle don't get a say in how annoying/invasive the rancher's methods to maximize milking output are, so why should internet cattle?
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
I'll give up my Adblock when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
You've turned highways roadsides into billboard plastered eyesores.
In many contries highway ads are banned.
You steal 15-22 minutes of every hour to sell us crap
I do not remember that I broke into your house armed with guns and forced you to view advertisements. For example the only TV channel I occassionally view is HBO, I pay the subscription fee, and do not view any ads.
You fill our snail mail boxes and email boxes with spam
No respectable company use spam nowdays.
In short, Go Fuck Yourself.
I seriously consider your recommendation, because you seem to be a person who is very experienced in this subject, i.e. in fucking yourself.