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Re: Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster', says data firm

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On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, +++ATH0 wrote:

> Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/09/blocking-adverts-napster-for-the-publishing-industry
>
>>   More internet users are blocking adverts than ever before, according to
>>   a new report, with the rate more than doubling over the course of last
>>   year.
>
> I'm guilty: I often use lynx ...
>
Until two years ago, when suddenly I got DSL (and wifi), most of my 
browsing was with lynx.  You really don't notice ads if all they can be is
text the same size as anything else, but I don't think many of the ads 
even show up.  The only time I'd use a graphic browser was for sites that 
needed it, which also tended to be sites I wanted to comment at.

With the DSL and wifi, I suddenly was using my tablet a lot more, and of 
course that's got a graphic browser.  I really had never seen that much 
advertising, suddenly it's following me around and I can't believe how 
deep it's gotten. The only good thing about it is that I am not waiting 
for all those ads to download (along with the generally bloated webpages), 
since there's DSL.

I still use lynx as my main browser on the desktop, but balanced against 
that is I do more browsing than I ever did, and that's from the tablet and 
the graphic browser.

Just think, 20 years ago, there was concern for making webpages that were 
readable by all.  Now nobody cares (unless you don't have a mainstream 
browser) and virtually nobody is talking about the bloat.  Nobody notices 
the slowness of webpages because most people now are paying for high speed 
internet, you really don't notice that a page might be bloated when it 
loads in an instance.

   Michael

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