Re:Three to become first European network to block ads
by Kurtz79 on Friday February 19, 2016 @11:17AM
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"People think this is some sort of fancy "Ad Block Plus" -- it's not."
Uh...
http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/over-300-businesses-...
Re:Three to become first European network to block ads
by s_dev on Friday February 19, 2016 @12:17PM
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A browser plug-in modifying/controlling traffic. Acceptable.
An ISP modifying/controlling traffic. Dangerous precedent.
What makes it different in my view is that in one scenario the end user is in control in the other the ISP is in control.
Re:Three to become first European network to block ads
by qb45 on Friday February 19, 2016 @12:40PM
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> An ISP modifying/controlling traffic. Dangerous precedent.
Some ISPs have already been adding ads. The only precedent here is that those guys are removing them instead.
Maybe we will live to see times when ads injected by ISP1 end up filtered by ISP2 and replaced with others by ISP3, all within a single TCP stream :)
People think this is some sort of fancy "Ad Block Plus" -- it's not.
Basically the ISPs want Google and Facebook to give them revenue because they "transport" their packets that are ads. This is an affront to net neutrality.
Three will block ads and then charge Google/FB to let them through.