[jQueryIsAwesome]

The only "bullshit" I can see here is your comment[0].

Of all possible crows I would expect the Hacker News one to be the more rational about this; but no; many here are pretending this is somehow OK; lets be very clear, for many sites this for all practical reasons the same as hiding the pay button in any SaaS or PasS start-up.

The tracking done by many ads could be stopped by deleting cookie-headers and using a proxy to serve the ads to hide the real IP from advertisers; but no; they decided that removing the ads completely was a perfectly good idea.

Google should stop allowing all users from that ISP to use _any_ Google service at all (Including Google search and Gmail) with a little message saying that "Your internet provider is actively hurting our business model by using default ad-blocking in all their routers including yours. If you like to keep enjoying our services please contact them and ask them to stop using such aggressive tactics. Thank you."

The only reason we the people with ad-blockers as browser extensions are not actually harmful is because (believe or not) we are a minority.

[0]Yes, calling "bullshit" the title someone decided was appropriate for this article is just as offensive as calling your comment the same way.

[bjustin]

> The tracking done by many ads could be stopped by deleting cookie-headers and using a proxy to serve the ads to hide the real IP from advertisers; but no; they decided that removing the ads completely was a perfectly good idea.

If you mean the ISP should modify any information coming over my connection, no thanks. IP blocking (which I understand is what they are using) is nice and simple.

The blocking should be opt-in rather than opt-out, and I am not opposed to Google blocking everyone on Free because of the ad blocking. But do not advocate intrusive methods that involve an ISP actively modifying data.

[twiceaday]

You'd be hard pressed to find an email service that lets you opt out of their junk mail filter. How is this any different?

[jQueryIsAwesome]

Maybe, just maybe because that spam is not the bussiness model of your email provider.

[twiceaday]

Yes. They are not biased by a conflict of interest so they can offer users exactly what they want.

[jQueryIsAwesome]

Offering everything users want only can be done when they are paying, otherwise they must accept the little things they don't like such as the main income source of all the websites they like to use. It would be like google asking all other ISPs to block this French ISP just because they don't like their business decisions.