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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Content Injection Appliance
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001, Irwin Lazar wrote: [snip] > It also could kill the web banner advertising industry as these devices > allow ISPs to replace banner ads on a web site with ads inserted by the ISP. > Even worse, web surfers might be forced to watch a 30 second commercial for > every ten minutes that they surf. We Australians and various Asian countries have been doing that with squid for a loooong time. Well, we did, until people realised that the banner-ad companies could sue the ISPs for loss of revenue or something I don't quite get. Back then (what, 1996, 1997?) the banner-ad traffic was a rather large chunk of overall web traffic. On the original note, people have been asking me (as a squid person) how they could implement schemes like this so their users would be forced to see web advertisements every so often in any webpage. I refuse to reply to them, as saying "thats bad, mmkay?" generally goes over their heads (they asked in the first place, right? :) Adrian -- Adrian Chadd "The fact you can download a 100 megabyte file <[email protected]> from half way around the world should be viewed as an accident and not a right." -- Adrian Chadd and Bill Fumerola
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