What! Me Sarcastic?

One of my closest friends and 24/7 tech support recently relocated back to Pune. One of the biggest advantages of that apart from having tech support hands on instead of over the phone is that we can catch up for dinner. I shall spare you the details of my continued dislike of impersonal communication.

Dinner at Burger King, he mentions with his ever increasing knowledge of things computer and internet related (not to be confused with his ever increasing paunch) that the ad network companies that supply your daily (over)dose of annoying pop ups are lobbying to make pop up blockers illegal. Their reason? It affects their revenue.

I absolutely agree. Advertising is the best way to get your product out there. So what if you have to cause a visual overload of caustic pop-ups, pop-unders and their kith and kin? People need to know you make the best goods in the market. What better way of doing it than having the loudest colours making even louder interruptions to your peaceful blogging. There is money out there to be made, don't you know the more you annoy a person the more he will like you and your product? Following are the people who should follow (law)suit.

Car and Bike Companies vs. Public Transport - They use your cheap ass buses and trains and think it's a good replacement for our products. Burn them at the stake. Pollution is good.

The general public vs. the car companies - Stop putting rev limiters on our vehicles. I want my blown engine.

Phishers vs. Companies that educate their clients about safe banking for example. Hey I bust my ass stealing your identity even when you're an idiot. Now they make you smart? I have a wife and kids to feed Your Honour.

You know what that leads to, thieves suing companies making burglar alarms. The biggest case would probably be the Criminals suing the Cops if the lawyers didn't have to worry about which side their client actually belonged too.

I say ban ad blockers. Let the revenue stream go unhindered. Companies like, umm wait what was the last ad?

Oh right, sorry, what ad? I use Firefox.