[WEB4LIB] Re: Free Britannica Going Away

[Dobbs, Aaron]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Barry [mailto:me at Tony-Barry.emu.id.au]
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 8:08 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Free Britannica Going Away


At 12:16 PM -0800 15/3/01, morganj at iupui.edu wrote:
>The problem is the obtrusive nature of online ads.  With popup windows,
>the ads are much more aggresive than in print media.  In print I can skip
>whole pages of ads if I want; online ads are always either on the page I'm
>viewing or in a popup window I have to close.  And of course there are the
>techniques that make closing windows difficult, and ads that mislead you
>into thinking they are for some other service you want.  Until we have
>some standards for ethical online advertising, consumers will see them as
>pollution.

Use a browser that disables them. I do.

Tony
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