I share this ill feeling when I watch commercials on television, and actually hate those more than I hate spam, because while spam may be more virulent in some of its strains, for the most part it’s quiet and easy to ignore. My position on it, however, is that consumers are going to grow so sick of it that they develop “banner blindness” to it in any and all forms, and thus it will ultimately be deemed a waste of time and money by the corporate sponsors. The nice thing about the connected world we are building is it allows for individuals to instantly search for, save, personalize, and control their own access to products and services, making in-your-face and often misleading advertising a thing of the past. I may be the idealistic capitalist in saying so, but I truly believe that sort of populism will whittle away at the annoyance

From Digg, naturally
http://digg.com/tech_news/Why_Digg_is_Blocked

and it occurs to me that we have, collectively, the answer in our own hands: block Google.

Oh I know, nobody wants to do that, it’s the kiss of internet death - but it might be worth doing it for one day, just to make a point.

Thoughts?

And - it’s just so tacky. So putrid. So vile. People ask me why I am so ant-capitalism (etc) and I point to spam, and I say *this* is what they think is appropriate.

We need to design against spam. Google won’t help us. And even if Google did, some other company would come along to monetize it.

How are you handling this because I am ready to turn off trackbacks entirely!

Chris