French ISP Blocking Web Ads By Default

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 4, 2013 @11:04AM from the hasn't-yet-surrendered-to-pressure-from-ad-suppliers dept.

New submitter GavrocheLeGnou writes "The french ISP 'Free.fr' is now blocking ads from Adsense and other providers by default for all its subscribers. The option can be turned off globally, but there's no whitelist (Google translation of French original). From the article: 'Because the service doesn’t offer a whitelist (contrary to Adblock, a service I’ve used for years), this means that it is an all or nothing choice, activated by default to block everything. And since it is not only internet, but TV and phone lines running through the FreeBox, it’s possible that, if left unchecked, Free could beginning blocking TV ads, or phone calls from known spam hotlines. While this seems like a potentially beneficial service, there’s no doubt that it’s biting at the heels of several sectors who rely on advertisement to make money, let alone the advertisers themselves who pay to reach an audience, and are blocked at the door.'"

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Re:There's another side to that story by Pseudonym+Authority · 2013-01-04 16:47 · Score: 1, Troll

full net neutrality
How is blocking ads net neutrality?

Oh, you are one of those hypocrites. ``Fucking with the data is NOT okay! The ISP should be a dumb pipe to dump data on! Except the things I don't like, of course!".