Three to become first European network to block ads

Re:Three to become first European network to block ads by Kurtz79 on Friday February 19, 2016 @11:17AM (#11134371)

"People think this is some sort of fancy "Ad Block Plus" -- it's not."

Uh...

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Re:Three to become first European network to block ads by s_dev on Friday February 19, 2016 @12:17PM (#11134794)

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.

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Re:Three to become first European network to block ads by qb45 on Friday February 19, 2016 @12:40PM (#11135003)

> 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 :)

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Re:Three to become first European network to block ads by Buge on Friday February 19, 2016 @12:58PM (#11135150)

This is why we need to switch to https.

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