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I was reading this on Slashdot, and saw a number of comments asking why anyone would deliberately show popups to someone who had blocked them, and would therefore certainly not click on them.
Obviously someone must be clicking on those pop-ups, or it wouldn't be worth displaying them ... in the same way that someone must be buying things from spam that's deliberately misspelled, to get it past the spam filter.
From which I conclude: filtering spam for people who don't care, and blocking popups by deault in Firefox, is a DISSERVICE to the Internet community, because it creates a group of people who 1) are willing to buy the products so advertised, but 2) are only accessibly by circumventing their junk filters, imposed upon them by others.
Does anyone else see a solution to the problem in simply making people agree not to buy from stupid advertisers before giving them the benefit of anti-stupid-advertiser-filtering? Or at least not making such filtering the default option?
Obviously someone must be clicking on those pop-ups, or it wouldn't be worth displaying them ... in the same way that someone must be buying things from spam that's deliberately misspelled, to get it past the spam filter.
From which I conclude: filtering spam for people who don't care, and blocking popups by deault in Firefox, is a DISSERVICE to the Internet community, because it creates a group of people who 1) are willing to buy the products so advertised, but 2) are only accessibly by circumventing their junk filters, imposed upon them by others.
Does anyone else see a solution to the problem in simply making people agree not to buy from stupid advertisers before giving them the benefit of anti-stupid-advertiser-filtering? Or at least not making such filtering the default option?
