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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by freehunter on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:20AM (#11421627)
Well they didn't exactly say "do we have your permission to run your CPU up to 100%, hog all of your memory, and install trackers on your computer? And occasionally, can we install malware on your machine?"
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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by jamespo on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:31AM (#11421696)
Reminds me of the arguments about not letting in any refugees as some of them may commit a crime.
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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by freehunter on Monday April 04, 2016 @11:42AM (#11422723)
Once advertisements become sentient creatures and can be considered human, then they should be granted human rights. As it stands though, what you're doing is saying that refugees (who, I remind you, are humans) are basically worth as much as a banner ad on a website. It shouldn't need to be said, but I'll say it anyway: blocking ads is not comparable to genocide. In any way. At all.

Fucking disgusting.

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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by bigmanwalter on Monday April 04, 2016 @12:18PM (#11423067)
The singularity is approaching! What a time to be alive :)
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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by tremon on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:43AM (#11421789)
Except that we do not have a humanitarian obligation towards javascriptlets.
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Re:Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry's Fault, Says Outg... by jamespo on Monday April 04, 2016 @10:44AM (#11422236)
and that is definitely the aspect that reminded me
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