Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 00:41:54 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: mph@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/ijb - Imported sources Message-ID: <19980504004154.04264@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199805032226.PAA11331@hub.freebsd.org>; from Jonathan M. Bresler on Sun, May 03, 1998 at 03:26:23PM -0700 References: <19980503230438.48318@follo.net> <199805032226.PAA11331@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 03:26:23PM -0700, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > Eivind Eklund wrote: > > On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 01:51:41PM -0700, Matthew Hunt wrote: > > > mph 1998/05/03 13:51:40 PDT > > > > > > ports/www/ijb - Imported sources > > > Update of /home/ncvs/ports/www/ijb > > > In directory freefall.freebsd.org:/d/users/mph/junkbuster > > > > > > Log Message: > > > Import of ijb, the Internet Junkbuster. It's an HTTP proxy that > > > strips advertisements and so on. > > > > Should't this be under ATT (for "Automated Theft Tool")? ;-) > > > > Refusing to download ads from the WWW is very bad practice. Those ads are > > paying for the service you're using. I'm not even certain we should have > > the above program as a port - I don't think we'd have a 'automated > > crack-on-download' tool, for instance, and this is actually fairly similar. > > > > Eivind, > > hmm....if i understand what you are saying then > 1. i should watch the commercials on TV rather than getting > a sandwich or changing the channel. > 2. if i record a program of TV, i shouldnt fast-forward thru > the commercials. Let me rephrase this for TV: If you're a producer of TV-sets, including an option to automatically remove all advertising so that all programs run continously[1] would be unwise, as it would be bad for the health of the medium. As a consumer, skipping on a case-by-case basis is (of course) OK. Besides, the payment system for TV is different from the one for web-sites. Websites are paid per display of an advert (ie, per viewer) - TV channels are paid bulk or per slot they display the ad in (which reach an unknown number of viewers). Eivind. [1] Yes, this is impossible for TV, but it is just what ijb does for web-sites. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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