[Avodah] ad blockers

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From: Micha Berger via Avodah _avodah at lists.aishdas.org_ 
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>> I am arguing, and as is evidenced by the pop-up that started  the
conversation, the ad is a tenai the vendor attaches to reshus to
look  at use of his material. <<



Micha  Berger              
micha at aishdas.org         



>>>>>
 
In today's Wall Street Journal:
 
 
--quote--
 
New York Times Co. is  experimenting with ways to limit its exposure to 
online ad blocking, becoming  one of the highest-profile online publishers to 
take such action. 
On Monday morning, some visitors to the Times' website who had ad blocking  
tools enabled were greeted with a message stating "The best things in life  
aren't free." To access the Times's content, they were prompted to either  
purchase a subscription or "whitelist" the site to allow its ads to appear. 
A spokeswoman for the New York Times said ..."The goal is to inform users 
of  the harm of ad blocking and to encourage the whitelisting of nytimes.com. 
Ad  blockers do not serve the long term interest of consumers. The creation 
of  quality news content is expensive and digital advertising is one way 
that The  New York Times and other high quality news providers fund news 
gathering  operations."    
....Also on Monday, online advertising trade body the Interactive 
Advertising  Bureau issued a guide for how publishers should attempt to combat ad 
blocking.  Its advice was essentially that publishers should limit access to 
their websites  and services when visitors have ad-blocking software enabled. 
--end quote--
 
http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-times-experiments-with-ways-to-fight-ad
-blocking-1457378218
 
 
My two cents: a strong case can be made that ad-blocking is a form  of 
theft.
 
--Toby Katz
t613k at aol.com
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