ISP Announces It's Blocking All Facebook And Google Ads Until Companies Pay A Troll Toll
Found on Techdirt on Friday, 02 October 2015
Caribbean and South Pacific ISP Digicel has started blocking Google and Facebook ads from appearing on the company's mobile network in the apparent belief that the service provider is owed a slice of these companies' ad revenues. In a notice posted to the Digicel website, this move is framed as something that was motivated purely for altruistic, pro-consumer reasons.
Fact aside that blocking ads might actually be a good thing for users, where should it end? A tax from all money earned via their connection? A fraction of all your online banking done via their connection?