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Here's the thing with Wired

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Here's the thing with Wired:

http://i.imgur.com/ONOt88S.png

Fight Internet coercion -- boycott Wired. Don't link to their articles, don't visit their site, don't accept their coercive behavior. Ad blocking is not a crime, it's a right.

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I don't ad-block, but I do null-route hosts that I don't enjoy receiving traffic from.

Some hosts make my browser slow and don't contain content I care about. So they are 0.0.0.0 according to my hosts file.

Wired somehow detects that I'm not talking to those hosts and punishes me as show in that screen shot.

I don't like it.

Wired's own webservers are NOT null-routed, so they should serve ad content from their own webservers if they want me to view it.

  they should serve ad content from their own webservers

I'd love for more sites to do that. Unanimated, non-tracking, same-domain ads are the most acceptable.

Forbes went the same way, and same with Computerworld. They think that they're being slick, but they've just lost readers instead.

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