Re: [TCLUG:20613] slashdot and doubleclick

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 
> Thomas T. Veldhouse said:
> > I believe that blocking doubleclick can cause may sites to fail completely.
> 
> (I'm not sure if that was a joke or not, but...)

By `fail' he probably meant that the page will not render correctly
without something there.  I know that this has been true on Slashdot in
the past, though I'm not sure if they do that anymore.  Obviously, site
operators want people to be forced to look at the ads -- they get more
eyeballs..

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