Here's the thing with Wired

Posted by lutusp on Monday April 18, 2016 @12:36PM
from the self-post dept.

Here's the thing with Wired:

http://i.imgur.com/ONOt88S.png

Fight Internet coercion -- boycott Wired. Don't link to their articles, don't visit their site, don't accept their coercive behavior. Ad blocking is not a crime, it's a right.

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Re:Here's the thing with Wired by daveloyall on Monday April 18, 2016 @12:53PM (#11521320)

I don't ad-block, but I do null-route hosts that I don't enjoy receiving traffic from.

Some hosts make my browser slow and don't contain content I care about. So they are 0.0.0.0 according to my hosts file.

Wired somehow detects that I'm not talking to those hosts and punishes me as show in that screen shot.

I don't like it.

Wired's own webservers are NOT null-routed, so they should serve ad content from their own webservers if they want me to view it.

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Re:Here's the thing with Wired by ArbitraryHobo on Monday April 18, 2016 @01:06PM (#11521429)

  they should serve ad content from their own webservers

I'd love for more sites to do that. Unanimated, non-tracking, same-domain ads are the most acceptable.

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Re:Here's the thing with Wired by jrnichols on Monday April 18, 2016 @09:50PM (#11524398)

Forbes went the same way, and same with Computerworld. They think that they're being slick, but they've just lost readers instead.

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