I’d rather look at ads than pay a subscription fee any day – it means I can get more news and info from more places and keeps the flow of information flowing. If I had to pay $10/mo per site I use, I’d only be able to gain access to a few. Now, literally, we have the word at our fingertips for news, view points, information.

Providing content isn’t free, looking at it is because of advertising.

This week we heard about a huge economic crisis in the US and the world. It’s costing us in the US more than a TRILLION DOLLARS to bail out our financial system from the effects of 30 years of Reaganomics. This happened because everyone from the government on down is buying crap on credit. The Bush Administration fights TWO WARS on credit and my neighbor buys a 50″ television on credit. Houses, condos on credit, health care on credit, cars on credit. All because we don’t have enough money due to a war on the middle class and tax cuts for the rich.

This is a Class War that we didn’t start, but with people like you, we will finish.

Thank you.

I think this pro-advertising man is going to have to take some more persuasive viewpoints on a site called anti-advertising agency.

1. Advertising will come in during the TEXT of what we are reading, or some other more conspicuous and unpleasant location.

This has already happened. Check out http://www.adfreeblog.org/ for more. If it gets worse in the future, we can fight that battle next.

2.We will have to pay to subscribe to various sites whose advertisers no longer wish to pay to have no one look at their ads.

This also, has already happened. It’s called porn.

3. [Insert other evils here.]

Alright, more seriously now:

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1. This add-on could bring about all kinds of things, positive and negative. And it might not. We’re speculating. We could talk about all kinds of things that might happen, but we don’t know. The add-on has been out for a week.

1. You have rights. You can look at what you want. Marketers don’t own your brain and your eyes, even if they think they paid for it. You can tape tv shows and fast-forward through the commercials – and there’s court cases to back you up). You can flip past the ads in a magazine. You can choose not to see advertising (as long as you’re not in public space) and that’s good.

2. History has shown that advertising will creep ever further into our lives. Blaming those who fight back is overlooking those truly responsible. When you get down to it, your argument is not with me.

1. Advertising will come in during the TEXT of what we are reading, or some other more conspicuous and unpleasant location.

2. We will have to pay to subscribe to various sites whose advertisers no longer wish to pay to have no one look at their odds.

3. [Insert other evils here.]

Is this really what you want?