Bobtheduck wrote: volt... So, yeah, how about you idle your fingers and stop trying to act indignant when there is actually a valid point to be made here.
Volt's too lazy to seperate with quotes, my reply is in
BOLDOkay, you're watching a movie. An ad comes on the screen, and you hold your hand over it. Is that illegal?
Nope, technically that would mean there's an object in the way, there are technicalities that cannot be accounted for
You say removing ads is illegal? Well, let us just use Doubleclick's own example of a newspaper. The ads subsidize much of the cost of producing a newspaper, yet it is perfectly legal to cut the ads out of your own copy.Funny thing is, by cutting them out you are looking at them, even for a slight second, I hope so. Wouldn't want you to cut your finger off. And you're Once again missing the point.
The Newspaper company PRINTED out the ads,
They are done with their job, If the ads are physcially on the paper,
THEN you BUY the paper,
THEN you Remove the ads, that's fine
Do you ever throw away junk mail? Companies paid to have that put in your box.
As long as it is Printed out ON the paper,
and it ends up IN your mailbox, you have the right to do whatever you want with them
Do you ever go fix a snack during a television commercial?
Walking away, Looking away, ignoring an ad is completely different than using software to completely make the ad dissapear.
Companies paid to put that on your box. How about this - have you ever decided not to wear branded clothing?
Have you ever decided to just go to an Adless Website?
When I view a web page, my browser asks the server for the page, and the server gives me some text. Yes, text. I can then decide whether I want to see all images, no images, or some images. Just because there's a url for an image doesn't mean that I have to retrieve that image.
I can also write in the margins of my books if I so choose. I can even black out large portions that I don't want. I can tamper with my own books all I want.
Becasue YOU BOUGHT THEM, and your OWN them, you do not OWN nor PAY nor SUPPORT, nor DONATE, nor CONTRIBUTE, for any online Content.
Online Content is stored on their Server, They own it, they pay for it. You just View it. The Newspaper is something you BUY, ONCE you buy it, it's yours, you can rip out all the ads you want.
I've got a line or two of text in my sig. I will pretend that it is an ad and proceed to sue everybody who is reading with sigs disabled.
Yet another smart remark, without any attempt to understand the underlying truth, Your SIGS do not support CAA.
I for one am (not trying to brag) a productive member of society. I click the ads on my favorite sites, regardless of weather or not I'm interested.
I run websites of my own, and I know the feeling, fortunately I'm ad free for the next 1.5 years, for the hosting is free for now.
This isn't about me trying to be a smart[butt] and argueing beyond reason. The point here is, that these websites, OUR websites, need ads to stay online, they are essential, ADS are the blood of the internet, Weather it be pop-ups, banners, musical garbage and what-not.
I will say this... I am a proud hypocrite who, while argues for the sake of ads, hates them completely, and will not hesitate to use a pop-up blocker on sites that have heavy pop-ups, for the sake of not slowing down my Comp during increased CPU usage.
I'm not argueing weather or not they're annoying. YES they are annoying. Do i block them? YES. Then why am I argueing? To proove the point that they are essential. Doesn't that make me a hypocrite?
It sure does, and guess what, I download music too
that's tampering.
