"Gladiator" wrote in message
news:ve4693hc8t7nutvkrco7heuhtsee2bmdap@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 23:05:52 -0500, "Vanguard" <no@mail.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>>To be fair, it is THEIR site, not yours, and the cost of your visit
>>and
>>everyone else's to allow free access to that site may rely on ad
>>revenue
>>(i.e., ad space or click-throughs). Don't visit there if you don't
>>like
>>seeing advertisements. Just as you believe you have a right to edit
>>the
>>content of their site, they have the right to not show you that
>>content
>>unless you see ALL of it. They can even screw up the formatting of
>>their page to make it difficult to read unless the ads are displayed
>>in
>>your browser (i.e., the space for the ad is different than for the
>>placeholder). Blocking their ads can result in a non-sustainable web
>>site that disappears because of users like yourself. Not going there
>>eliminates their cost in resources to supply you with their web page.
>>It is very much like going to the store to buy a box of chocolates,
>>opening the box while in the store, tossing out all the ones that you
>>don't like, and then claiming you should only have to pay only for the
>>ones that you left in the box.
>
> It's my computer and I'll block anything I want.


It's their site so don't ***** when they decide not to let you see any
of it. Now I know why some of the books I get from the library have
torn out pages and polluted with highlighted lines.