Via Digg: “Adblock Plus, the Firefox browser plug-in that erases advertisements from web pages, is a killer of a killer app … or it could be if it became really popular.The widespread adoption of ad-blocking software could totally atomize online advertising. But, the numbers still aren’t high enough YET to spur a counterattack by the big guns, like Google.”
If this ever does take off and reached critical mass, I wonder what sort of outcry we’d see, from it, on the part of e-business. Personally, I don’t see any harm in web advertising, or targeted web advertising: bandwidth is NOT free, up or down the Internets, and ultimately someone needs to pay for it. The vast majority of websites, even high quality ones, are done by hobbyists–they don’t make a profit. They need a way to recoup bandwidth and hostings costs at the least.
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