david_uk - 12:54 pm on Mar 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

I read that only 3% of the planet's population live in the US, yet it seems that the 3% want to control what the rest of the planet does using an English invention by Tim Berners-Lee.

Federal laws (whatever they are) do not apply to 97% of the planet.

Having said that, I do actually agree with some of the things said in this thread. I rarely click on ads as I know they are likely to lead to another page of ads, and to be honest I also don't explore the freedom that is the WWW because a lot of it is crappy sites that exist to fleece someone of their ad bduget. I do tend to stick to sites I know will give me the information I need.

Maybe I'm unique, maybe not. I think that when people like Google, MSN & Yahoo etc start noticing diminishing returns due to this factor things will change. But there will always be people that will scam - whatever direction the web takes in the future.