On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 17:26 +0000, Jason Cartwright wrote: > Ad blocking is short-sighted and selfish - you are costing the > publisher money
you're possibly saving them money by not downloading their assets, saving them a (fractional) amount of transit costs. > and preventing more content being produced in the future. Pretty > unethical. It might be many things, but it isn't unethical. I've just skipped some ads on my PVR. Is that unethical? I turned over the centre-ad-spread in a glossy mag - ditto? What I look at on my own computer is surely up to me. If banner-ad doesn't make companies enough money to survive, isn't that up to them - and whether I block the ads or not, isn't that up to me? George - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
