[OT] TV, Internet, and Democracy

[Jamon Camisso]

Sy Ali wrote:
> On 5/24/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I know there are commercials that have very succesfully put some
>> companies on a permanent ban in my mind, where I simply refuse to ever go
>> to one of their stores because their advertising campaigns are just so
>> amazingly stupid.  Maybe they are trying to attract a different type of
>> person, whoever that is. :)  So no I am not immune to advertising, but
>> it isn't always a possitive thing for the advertiser.
> 
> For me, this applies to websites.
> 
> For example, it *really* pained me to shop at www.cmdistro.com .. I
> ended up writing and rewriting a list of issues which I sent only
> after boring through the store enough to actually buy something.
> 
> I look at some awful awful spam, emails, banners and websites and feel
> the same sort of horror as seeing a terrible non-ad on tv.

Filterset.G with Konqueror gets rid of most ads.

Jamon

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