Rich Kulaweic wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 11:21:10AM -0800, Jack Killpatrick wrote:
> > Kathy, though there's been a bit of hot debate about the ethics
> of "turning
> > those ad banners off",
>
> You've got to be kidding? The ethics of "turning those ad banners off"?
> What about the ethics of hitting "mute" during TV commercials? About
> hanging up on telemarketers? About receiving spam?
>
> I am under no obligation to receive any network traffic of any kind that
> I don't wish to. Period. This is why I run anti-spam software, screen
> all my incoming phone calls, and use anti-ad-banner software in my http
> proxies. There is no ethical debate here, only the bleating of clueless
> marketroids who wish to inflict their trash on anyone they can.
The "ethics" discussion usually revolves around the ideas that "the ads pay
for the content on many sites and if you don't see the ads, you're stealing
the content" and "if the advertisers aren't supported, we won't be able to
give you the content any more...because we have to get paid for what we do."
Jack
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