On 2015-11-09 12:28 , P.J. Alling wrote:
[...] and I kind of felt that since I'm
getting "free" content from websites that the least I could do is allow them
to display less annoying advertisements, that I ignore anyway, so the
proprietors could make some money.
Well enough was enough. Poorly formed and formatted advertisements that put
my browser in an infinite hang drove me to it. The A-holes that write such
lousy crapwear will kill the free internet if Government regulation doesn't
do it first.
a web iconoclast whom i've followed for many years, Dave Winer
(scripting.com) has been tackling this issue and filtering the work of
others; here is one of the best recent articles he has pointed me to:
<http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-block-ads/>
excerpt:
> We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips,
so we tend to describe them with words of mild bemusement like “annoying” or
“distracting.” But this is a grave misreading of their nature. In the short
term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the
longer term, however, they can accumulate and keep us from living the lives
we want to live, or, even worse, undermine our capacities for reflection and
self-regulation, making it harder, in the words of Harry Frankfurt, to “want
what we want to want.” Thus there are deep ethical implications lurking here
for freedom, wellbeing, and even the integrity of the self
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