azephrahel makes a very good point here that some have not seemed to notice. Since Mozilla already can block banner ads in general, there could almost be nothing *easier* than writing a simple Mozilla addon to remove this proposed sort of banner ads, thus rendering the banner ads totally useless to all Mozilla users. Probably plugins for IE and other browsers would soon arrive also. So while it might work at first, pretty soon no one is going to be seeing those ads. Then the question really becomes, is anyone going to pay for banner ads that no one will ever see?
I happen to agree completely with Nephroth./. is the primary news site to many people, including me, and so I would hope to be able to trust most of the stuff that's posted here. If our news is riddled with hoaxes, we won't be able to trust anything we read on/. without carefully checking all of the sources. Besides, any fake articles could influence some of our younger and less experienced readers in bad ways...we don't want to ruin the rising/. readers by feeding them lies before they're old enough to know better!
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azephrahel makes a very good point here that some have not seemed to notice. Since Mozilla already can block banner ads in general, there could almost be nothing *easier* than writing a simple Mozilla addon to remove this proposed sort of banner ads, thus rendering the banner ads totally useless to all Mozilla users. Probably plugins for IE and other browsers would soon arrive also. So while it might work at first, pretty soon no one is going to be seeing those ads. Then the question really becomes, is anyone going to pay for banner ads that no one will ever see?
I happen to agree completely with Nephroth. /. is the primary news site to many people, including me, and so I would hope to be able to trust most of the stuff that's posted here. If our news is riddled with hoaxes, we won't be able to trust anything we read on /. without carefully checking all of the sources. Besides, any fake articles could influence some of our younger and less experienced readers in bad ways...we don't want to ruin the rising /. readers by feeding them lies before they're old enough to know better!