A : You've seen the ads that are windows popping up by the web in the Internet? Today, I read the news about"Is it ethical to block adverts online?" Do you have any thought on that
B : I can see it I Hate all the rubbish advertising on the Internet. Block away please!!! I don't recall ever being tempted to buy a product or use a service etc as a result of them. Quite the contrary, in fact. All they do is annoy the hell out of me & get in the way of accessing the content I'm after. Those that pop-up, take-over, or erupt simply as the cursor crosses them should be banned.
C : it's entirely ethical unlike TV and radio advertising, we pay for the bandwidth. It costs us to receive an ad, so it's right that it's our choice.
A : I don't like those ads the automatically start playing whilst you are trying to read something on the page and even if it lets you pause/mute it then it moves on to the next one it starts again.
B : Ads = noise = unwanted intrusion on my time/life.
Distraction from the main event. If I want to buy something I'll go looking for it.
Ethical to block ads? When has advertising EVER been ethical?
A : Ah.. The ethics of advertising. I worry about what the effect of all this advertising is on a human being. It's very difficult to escape from in every day situations not just on the web. I avoid it as much as possible.
C : Advertisers should always practice the highest ethics when advertising to children. Today, children are connected to content on the internet. In the eyes of children – from news content and from entertainment and games. For example has found the content and presentation of certain print ads in advertising to mimic articles. I think that morally good advertising therefore is that advertising that seeks to move people to choose and act rationally in morally good ways.
B : I agree. Adverts are fine as long as they are discreet. Pop-ups, redirects, bandwidth hogging video and the plethora of different ways