Re: [projectvrm] "I am not a brand."

[Alec Muffett < >]

> But give people tools to manage their experience effectively and I think 
> they'll use them.


Yes.  

Nobody [eg: no corporation or individual] should be empowered force any 
particular content [eg: spam] upon any user [eg: me].

Nor should anyone [eg: corporation or individual] receive sympathy for a 
user's [my] electing not to partake in their content.


I hereby now direct everyone's attention to Joe Andrieu's spirited 
excoriation of my use of AdBlock+:

        
http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2008/07/20/notes-on-user-driven-search/comment-page-1/#comment-1506

...which he deems to be "violation of a social contract":

> AdBlockPlus is a violation of your social contract and terms of service. 
> You may not like that your website of choice has chosen a business model 
> that offends you, but it doesn’t give you the right to access their content 
> without addressing the quid-pro-quo they clearly expect you to participate 
> in.


So somehow a "social contract" - one to which I have not signed - makes it 
all OK; there must be a very shadowy line between going to a website and 
having adverts foisted upon me, versus going-there and suffering popups, 
versus going-there and being auto-signed-up to a maillist.

The whole thread is worth reading, incidentally, and at the end - as you 
suggest, Christy - you may find yourself wondering who are the good, and who 
are the evil.

        -a

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