Now, to be fair, I must say that I don't have a problem with ads -- as long as I don't have to see or hear them and can be basically completely unaware of their existence.
I agree with what you say. Reddit is engaging with users rather than exploiting them -- and installing malware on their computers.
But what I was getting at is that if Reddit blocks, say, Wired, then what could Wired do?
Wired could block users coming from Reddit. But what users? There would be none.
I suppose Wired could run JavaScript in your browser, snoop through your browsing history, determine if you've ever been to Reddit, and then say you must promise never again to visit Reddit before you can visit Wired. At this point, I'm getting into the absurd. But hey, we're talking about advertisers here.
There is also the fear driven: OMG!!! Buy our product or something BAD BAD BAD is going to happen to you!
If you don't buy our product, you won't be cool, smart, beautiful, or rich. But if you buy our product you will be all of that and more!
ALERT: Malware has been detectified upon your computers. To preserve your valuable informations please to be installing our anti-malware product quite immediately!
It would be ironic to suggest that one of the internet's most profitable advertisers (Google) blacklist a clueless advertiser like Forbes.
But would that be a conflict of interest? Yes. But would it be illegal?
I don't know. Nobody forces you to use Google. You presumably use Google INSTEAD OF OTHER SEARCH ENGINES because you prefer Google's results -- including this hypothetical blocking of Forbes.
But after Forbes' "what SCO wants, SCO gets" in 2003, I don't really care what happens to Forbes. Long memory.
That and an automated FOIA system that would disclose, without human intervention, for an individual officer, which database access requests they have made (for closed cases).
That would make it easy to look for patterns of abuse. An officer could be found out if he snooped on any of his: * family * neighbors * ex boyfriends * people unrelated to the case number used in the request
I mean the government actors have nothing to hide, and therefore should not object to a recording, especially where the recording is preserved in real time at multiple remote locations.
I wonder if they got a trademark on the individual words "waste" and "land"?
What about the letters "W","a","s","t","e","l","n","d" ? Would they need separate trademark applications for the upper and lower case versions of each letter?
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Lost Sails
Piracy causes the loss of cargo. Sometimes the loss of shipping vessels. And sometimes injury or death to crews.
Often, piracy results in a Lost Sail and loss of other shipping or boating related items.
The Lost Sail is the main concern of the copyright maximalists.
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Re: Why I run an adblocker
To block ads.
Now, to be fair, I must say that I don't have a problem with ads -- as long as I don't have to see or hear them and can be basically completely unaware of their existence.
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Re: Re: Arms race
But what I was getting at is that if Reddit blocks, say, Wired, then what could Wired do?
Wired could block users coming from Reddit. But what users? There would be none.
I suppose Wired could run JavaScript in your browser, snoop through your browsing history, determine if you've ever been to Reddit, and then say you must promise never again to visit Reddit before you can visit Wired. At this point, I'm getting into the absurd. But hey, we're talking about advertisers here.
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Re:
If you don't buy our product, you won't be cool, smart, beautiful, or rich. But if you buy our product you will be all of that and more!
ALERT: Malware has been detectified upon your computers.
To preserve your valuable informations please to be installing our anti-malware product quite immediately!
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Re: Next generation
But isn't it easier to just not visit that website? There are a billion others.
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Re:
But would that be a conflict of interest? Yes. But would it be illegal?
I don't know. Nobody forces you to use Google. You presumably use Google INSTEAD OF OTHER SEARCH ENGINES because you prefer Google's results -- including this hypothetical blocking of Forbes.
But after Forbes' "what SCO wants, SCO gets" in 2003, I don't really care what happens to Forbes. Long memory.
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Arms race
Wired blocks users who block ads.
Reddit blocks Wired for blocking users who block ads.
So what is next:
Wired blocks users who come from (redirect-from) Reddit?
And would anyone care? If a siteA sent no visitors to a siteB that blocks visitors coming from siteA, would it make a sound?
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Here's The Thing
With Malware
We don't get it: Malware isn't what you're here for. But not being responsible enough to exclude malvertisements is what helps us keep the lights on.
So, add us to your malware whitelist or pay $1 per week for a version of WIRED with less malware.
Either way, you are supporting malware, hackers and botnets. We really appreciate it. (even if we have no clue what a botnet actually is.)
And you're privacy, is our number one concern!* So please enable cookies.
*(a concern that comes right below how much we can make by selling your tracking information to anyone who can pay).
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Re:
Copyright never fails to amaze me.
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Re: Re:
The spelling just enhances the appearance of being a jackass.
The content itself reveals give the true appearance.
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Re:
The act of piracy does not even result in a 'lost sail', or any other lost boating related items.
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Re: Re: What if . . .
That would make it easy to look for patterns of abuse. An officer could be found out if he snooped on any of his:
* family
* neighbors
* ex boyfriends
* people unrelated to the case number used in the request
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Lovecruft FBI meet
On the post: Amtrak Officer Misleads Traveler About Drug Dog Behavior In Order To Perform An Illegal Search
A waste of taxpayer resources
Wouldn't it be a more efficient use of resources to use a different kind of pet for sniffing drugs?
Such as a pet rock?
A drug sniffing pet rock.
Or maybe some kind of dowsing rod or some such? Maybe put it in a box with blinkenlights to give it a high tech spin?
It would save the taxpayers money while serving the interest of police in perverting justice.
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Wasteland
And then Cable TV replace it as a vast wasteland.
Now maybe inExile will become a vast wasteland.
Intellectual Property is a vast wasteland.
I wonder if they got a trademark on the individual words "waste" and "land"?
What about the letters "W","a","s","t","e","l","n","d" ?
Would they need separate trademark applications for the upper and lower case versions of each letter?
Fonts?
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What if . . .
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Re: This is the shit that needs to end
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Re: This? This is why people don't like or trust politicians
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Re: Re: Taking notes out of 'Creepy Stalkers 101' I see
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