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face=Arial>From: Micha Berger via Avodah <A
href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>>> I am arguing, and as is evidenced by the pop-up that started
the<BR>conversation, the ad is a tenai the vendor attaches to reshus to<BR>look
at use of his material. <<<BR><BR><BR><BR>Micha
Berger
<BR>micha@aishdas.org
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<DIV>In today's Wall Street Journal:</DIV>
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experimenting with ways to limit its exposure to online ad blocking, becoming
one of the highest-profile online publishers to take such action.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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." </P>
<P>....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.</P>
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href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-times-experiments-with-ways-to-fight-ad-blocking-1457378218">http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-times-experiments-with-ways-to-fight-ad-blocking-1457378218</A></DIV>
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<P>My two cents: a strong case can be made that ad-blocking is a form
of theft.</P></DIV>
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