On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 03:45:15PM -0700, SJS wrote:
Advertising on web-pages? Sure, it's allowed, but most of 'em I block, and I'm happy to show others how to block 'em, so I couldn't really offer that as a reasonable alternative.
I'm guessing that most of the population that responds to spam doesn't block advertisements. I haven't watched a TV program in 20 years that had commercials. It annoys me that much. I would rather pay directly for something than have it interrupted with ads. Fortunately, this is becoming a business model. The pricing suggest that advertising works quite well for enough of the population. The advertisers aren't really hurt by ad-blocking, unless it is the default. The people who go through the effort to block ads are usually aware enough of them to be less influenced, or realize the influence and intentionally disregard it. When a browser release starts blocking automatically, then the model breaks. David -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
