Thursday, October 1, 2015

How our love affair with ad-blocking risks giving Internet providers even more power

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October 1, 2015

"What Digicel is doing — turning ad-blocking on by default, and charging advertisers a fee to get through the filter — might fly in the Caribbean countries where it operates. But it's less clear that it would work in the United States, said Marvin Ammori, a net neutrality lawyer and activist.

"While not everyone loves ads, having carriers act as toll-booths for ads doesn't further user-choice, and would clearly violate our rules," said Ammori." Read more » about How our love affair with ad-blocking risks giving Internet providers even more power



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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on October 02, 2015 at 04:36AM

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