[thelist] death by banner- the next generation

[Tijs Teulings]

The arguments made sense since Gator is not a program to block ads but a
program to remember your passwords for you. The fact that it replaces (not
hides) ads with other ads is mentioned somewhere in the fine  print you need
to agree to to install the program.

//Tijs

> What gets me is the quote about sunglasses, and, did the 
> customer know what
> they were downloading. How silly is that. If I download Ad Blocking
> software, then I know what I'm doing. The sunglasses argument 
> was really a
> bad one since sunglasses server a main purpose outside of the 
> ad switching.
> 
> Ok, maybe I'm getting off topic. But the gist of the 
> complaints against
> Gator seems to be that people may not know what is going 
> on... which just
> doesn't make sense. Unless Gator slips into your system at 
> night while you
> are alseep.
>