Good riddance though. I wish other ISPs would follow suit. People do NOT like advertisements, the popularity of AdBlock shows that pretty clearly.
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New Freebox update censors ads by default for 5.5M users
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Re: New Freebox update censors ads by default for 5.5M users
#12Good riddance though. I wish other ISPs would follow suit. People do NOT like advertisements, the popularity of AdBlock shows that pretty clearly.
Well we (web developers) are trying to make the ad experience as best as we can. A lot of websites wouldn't even exist without ads (Google, Facebook etc...).
If ads are annoying you, use Adblock, but do not remove ads from every user by default!
I work for big startup in the US, and we wouldn't exist without ads.
Re: New Freebox update censors ads by default for 5.5M users
#13They seems to only want to block Google ads. Free and Google have had issues for a long time about 'who pays for bandwidth'. Google doesn't want to pay, so Free blocks their revenues.
Re: New Freebox update censors ads by default for 5.5M users
#14Freebox Revolution = 2 M users only !!!
5.5 M users, but 3 M are using the Freebox V5 (the previous version is unable to block ads).
Re: New Freebox update censors ads by default for 5.5M users
#15'Censorship' of spam emails is ubiquitous. How is this different from that for an end-user?
Spam email do not contain any content you want to read.
Webdevelopers/contentcreators create content but use ads to fund development of those works.
Re: New Freebox update censors ads by default for 5.5M users
#16I'm sure that this would also reduce traffic on some of nosiest advertisements which would benefit an ISP greatly.
ads don't add up to a lot of traffic for an ISP, video and so on does.
Re: New Freebox update censors ads by default for 5.5M users
#17Re: New Freebox update censors ads by default for 5.5M users
#18Good riddance though. I wish other ISPs would follow suit. People do NOT like advertisements, the popularity of AdBlock shows that pretty clearly.
Well we (web developers) are trying to make the ad experience as best as we can. A lot of websites wouldn't even exist without ads (Google, Facebook etc...). If ads are annoying you, use Adblock, but do not remove ads from every user by default! I work for big startup in the US, and we wouldn't exist without ads.
I think they're just doing that to get good publicity (oh Free doesn't show ads on internet? I think I'll sign-up at that ISP!) and also to piss off youtube.
They will turn it off by default in a couple weeks/month for sure. Mark my words.