Stealing From Google?
Posted by Melanie Phung on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 at 3:24 am
In his provocatively titled blog post Stealing From Google?, at Information Week’s site, Thomas Claburn poses the question:
Given implicitly that search engines generate their revenue from contextual ads, would it be akin to “stealing” to use a web browser plugin that blocks all those search-generated ads?
He writes that it’s possible to argue “that [he's] violating the unwritten contract to be receptive to advertising when accessing ad-supported content.” Which amuses me. Unwritten TOS? No such thing, in my opinion. Although I’d be fine if they added this to the terms of service.
I responded to his blog post (I won’t bother double posting it), but like a true techno-idiot I misspelled the URL linking back here. Sigh. There’s just no helping some people.
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