Olivier Bonvalet<debian.list@daevel.fr> writes:
Also, since ads are often the main funding source of a website, I
think blocking ads is a «politic» choice which can't be the default
behavior.
You are right, this is a political choice. I don’t think Debian should
endorse the web being run by advertisements when there are technical
solutions.
The default behavior should be to display the website as it is. Then
if a user choose to don't display ads then it's fine, he also accept
the fact that the website can disable access to some of it contents.
If that argument would be followed, we'd need flash, java and who knows
what else enabled in the default browser. I don't think that would be
smart or even desirable.
Quite a number of ads need flash anyway, and those that do not, usually
raise privacy concerns - so we either allow ads and hurt the privacy of
our users, or we protect their privacy by default at the cost of not
displaying ads.