Posts by Ethan Soutar-Rau

AVG fake traffic spares Google AdWords

Click through counts are garbage anyway.

I think AVG should be applauded for making advertisers reconsider the convenient fiction that is their business model. Maybe someone should make a Firefox addon to compliment adblock by simulating clickthroughs. That way no one has to see ads, content websites get payed, and advertisers get boiled in their own soup.

Big TV flips ad blockers the bird

At least its quiet.

I don't really mind the Hulu adblock message. When they weren't serving it up the video would make very harsh jumps where there was supposed to be an ad, now it fades in and out properly. Admittedly you do have to wait as long as you would for an ad, but the message has no sound so it is still a huge improvement over having to watch the ad.

I like Hulu, I just wish NBC would stop being so paranoid and post a few more episodes.