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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Advertisers Should Pay You |
| Date | 2016-07-10 21:17 +0000 |
| Organization | Piglet's Pickles & Preserves |
| Message-ID | <dufsafFc1obU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <P4pzZvlNJoSH6ZbfeDpSxGxY@dont-email.me> <dufm3rFamjoU2@mid.individual.net> <kgla5d-jaf2.ln1@news.chingola.ch> |
On 2016-07-10, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2016-07-10, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2016-07-10, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>>> http://www.philosophersbeard.org/2015/07/advertisers-should-pay-you.html
>>>
>>> Quoting from the URL above:
>>>
>>> Advertising is a natural resource extraction industry, like a fishery.
>>> Its business is the harvest and sale of human attention. We are the fish
>>> and we are not consulted.
>>>
>>> Two problems result from this. The solution to both requires legal
>>> recognition of the property rights of human beings over our attention.
>>>
>>> First, advertising imposes costs on individuals without permission or
>>> compensation.
>>
>> Which is why I feel no guilt whatsoever about running Adblock+.
>>
>> "I'll happily watch your advertising. How much will you pay me to do that?"
>>
>
> What was my local newspaper when I lived in the UK introduced anti-adblock
> measures the other week, so I promptly closed that browser tab.
Yep. If "you" run anti-Adblock measures on "your" web-site, I simply
do not return.
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Advertisers Should Pay You Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-07-10 15:36 +0000
Re: Advertisers Should Pay You polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2016-07-10 20:08 +0100
Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-07-10 19:31 +0000
Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-07-10 21:50 +0200
Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-07-10 21:17 +0000
Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-07-10 22:30 +0100
Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-07-11 09:07 +0200
Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-07-11 13:22 +1000
Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-11 08:47 -0500
Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2016-08-25 13:48 -0400
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