If you click on a news item in Yahoo Mail, you often get an
auto-play video to accompany it. I always switch it off because it’s using up
my relatively small bandwidth. Only I can’t do that any more because news videos
begin with an advert now, and the system won’t let you switch it off while
the advert is playing.
Being forcibly subjected to adverts on point-of-sale
displays and the like is one thing. It doesn’t cost anything. But I pay for my
bandwidth, so can anybody tell me what right an advertiser has to use
part of it trying to sell me something I’m not interested in? Aren’t we allowing
the goblins in the advertising industry a bit too much control over our lives these days?
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