Hello everybody, Just want to add some precisions :
- Not all web based advertisements are blocked. Blocking is done with a blacklist of IP addresses. - It is done on the CPE level, not in the core network of Free. This story is quite shaking the french interwebs and i was like Bernard at first and the more I think about it, the more my position is confused. My current state of mind is : - Is it an acceptable net neutrality violation if it's done on an opt-out basis ? Yes. - Is it acceptable in the current, opt-in, case ? No. One funny thing is that the ad-company of lemonde.fr (biggest online journal in France) owned by X. Niel who also owns Free, is still accessible. It's not in Free's blacklist. There is a fight between Free and Google about Youtube for some months now. So, is it a google trolling move ? At least, it's a good way to show how ad-dependent the commercial web is currently is. Julien Le 03 janv. à 17:41, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb a écrit : > Free ISP a French ISP with approx. 5M subs has blocked, by default, all web > based advertisements being served to their fixed-line Internet subscribers. > [1, 2] > > As a consumer, I would be very happy about it. As a "Internet neutrality" > (whatever you want to call it) supporter I disagree with what they are > doing. > > If they want to offer this as a service, then it should be opt-in, as > opposed to opt-out (subscribers can turn it off via their Internet router). > > While it's not life-threatening Internet censorship, in my opinion it is > still censorship. From a network infrastructure POV, it would be a > reasonably large job to carry this out successfully, without issues, but > nothing a modern ISP with a budget could not build. > > On the Twitters there are various reasons being discussed (the ISP is > blocking companies, who are not paying them anything, from making money). > > Will we see some websites blocking access for Free ISP subs? Will they > offer a second-class service? > > An interesting, but slightly disturbing development. > > > [1] > http://www.rudebaguette.com/2013/01/03/new-update-to-freebox-censors-internet-ads-by-default-for-5-5m-users/ > > [2] (Google translated) > http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.numerama.com%2Fmagazine%2F24665-blocage-des-pubs-free-pete-un-cable.html&act=url > > regards, Bernard
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