Is it just me or are marketer's suffer from the following:
1) Completely unable to restrain themselves. Ad blocking only got popular when web ads began taking over the content and making it hard to get quality information.
2) Completely out of touch with consumers. Would you really feel cheated if you bought a paper and it had all the ads cut out? Is that even comparing apples to apples?
3) Completely unaware that since marketers are so competitive about getting their ads seen they resort to unethical tactics such as pop ups or installing spyware on pc's which just annoys users and pushes them further towards spyware removers and ad blockers.
This guy completely forgets that his Doubleclick company is part of the problem that is driving the demand for ad blocking software. Users are not cheating marketing people. Users are leveling the playfield so they can get at the content they want easily and without having to kill 200 pop up windows.
I don't know about anyone else but I'm never going back to a non-tabbed browser experience.
My name is Shiznit4172 and I'm addicted to tabbed browsing.
Did anyone else find it interesting that Jack Thompson spent a majority of his interview speaking as an expert about the brain? A lawyer was talking about how neural pathways are formed and the overlapping areas of the brain. I'm not saying his statement were incorrect but IMHO he's trying to pass himself off as a brain expert when in all likelyhood he's not a brain expert. He's a lawyer. This would seem to be a way to divert attention from his case.
He also only references GTA as an example of violent video game. Tim Buckley talked about several games and used examples to highlight his points. While Jack Thompson only discussed GTA which could means to me he's being a little dishonest and inflamatory.
As a gamer I admit to being a bigger believer in Buckley's point of view. But IMHO Jack Thompson doesn't really come off believable or honest in his discussion. I'm probably stating the obvious.
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How will I get my WoW fix in? Or will I only be able to play with the domestic rabid 14-year olds?
Seriously.
Is it just me or are marketer's suffer from the following: 1) Completely unable to restrain themselves. Ad blocking only got popular when web ads began taking over the content and making it hard to get quality information. 2) Completely out of touch with consumers. Would you really feel cheated if you bought a paper and it had all the ads cut out? Is that even comparing apples to apples? 3) Completely unaware that since marketers are so competitive about getting their ads seen they resort to unethical tactics such as pop ups or installing spyware on pc's which just annoys users and pushes them further towards spyware removers and ad blockers. This guy completely forgets that his Doubleclick company is part of the problem that is driving the demand for ad blocking software. Users are not cheating marketing people. Users are leveling the playfield so they can get at the content they want easily and without having to kill 200 pop up windows.
I don't know about anyone else but I'm never going back to a non-tabbed browser experience. My name is Shiznit4172 and I'm addicted to tabbed browsing.
Did anyone else find it interesting that Jack Thompson spent a majority of his interview speaking as an expert about the brain? A lawyer was talking about how neural pathways are formed and the overlapping areas of the brain. I'm not saying his statement were incorrect but IMHO he's trying to pass himself off as a brain expert when in all likelyhood he's not a brain expert. He's a lawyer. This would seem to be a way to divert attention from his case. He also only references GTA as an example of violent video game. Tim Buckley talked about several games and used examples to highlight his points. While Jack Thompson only discussed GTA which could means to me he's being a little dishonest and inflamatory. As a gamer I admit to being a bigger believer in Buckley's point of view. But IMHO Jack Thompson doesn't really come off believable or honest in his discussion. I'm probably stating the obvious.