Community Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: UncleBob on January 31, 2014, 10:51:12 PM
Title: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: UncleBob on January 31, 2014, 10:51:12 PM
Ad filtering at the ISP level that actually *replaces* ads with ads provided by the ISP. Instead of the individual sites getting ad revenue, the ISP gets all the money and can do more targeted advertising based off the account (and based off the account's personalized browsing history).
I'll make a fortune.
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on January 31, 2014, 11:02:40 PM
As an ISP employee, why would a website owner like such an idea if they aren't getting paid for it?
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: UncleBob on January 31, 2014, 11:07:02 PM
As a service provider to end users (homes, businesses, etc.), I don't care what website owners think. I care about my bottom dollar. ;)
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: MegaByte on January 31, 2014, 11:17:12 PM
Prior art: http://zmhenkel.blogspot.com/2013/03/isp-advertisement-injection-cma.html Pretty sure there are many other cases of this in the past, but that was the first thing to pop up.
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: UncleBob on January 31, 2014, 11:40:41 PM
Interesting.
Why don't all ISPs do this? What's the downside?
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: Oblivion on February 01, 2014, 02:39:54 AM
Couldn'[size=78%]t they lose customers?[/size]
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: pokepal148 on February 01, 2014, 03:51:31 AM
Doesn't that infringe on net neutrality a bit,
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: Shaymin on February 01, 2014, 08:55:27 AM
What's net neutrality?
Real answer: The only websites left on the internet would be behind paywalls. It'd basically kill everything.
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: UncleBob on February 01, 2014, 09:30:51 AM
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: Oblivion on February 01, 2014, 12:00:01 PM
You mean the many customers like me that block ads? Or would I still be blocking their ads in this situation?
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: Ceric on February 01, 2014, 03:48:28 PM
Now that Net Neutrality has been killed I don't think there is really a legal reason they couldn't.
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: UncleBob on February 01, 2014, 06:42:41 PM
I would presume that you'd still be able to block the ads here as you can now.
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: NWR_insanolord on February 01, 2014, 07:41:47 PM
Shaymin's got the right answer. This would kill large sections of the internet, which would in turn lower demand for internet access, hurting the ISPs.
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: UncleBob on February 01, 2014, 07:47:00 PM
I don't think it would really hurt demand for the internet. All the various online shopping sites, things like Wikipedia, etc. they don't depend on advertising revenue.
It would really be interesting if something like this were to roll out on a major scale though.
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: NWR_insanolord on February 01, 2014, 07:50:55 PM
It would also probably strengthen the movement for net neutrality quite a bit. ISPs got what they wanted there, it wouldn't be in their best interest to do something like this to show a big easy reason to point to for why net neutrality legislation should pass.
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on February 01, 2014, 08:37:29 PM
This is why I'm digitally doomsday prepping. All the games, movies, music and books I can fit on to a 1.15 Petabyte storage. The net as we know it will be gone within 5 years or so and theres really bad net speeds in my fortified subway bunker. So glad for the replay value of tetris, chess and call of duty.
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: Oblivion on February 01, 2014, 11:18:51 PM
You have a petabyte of storage? Jesus dude
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 01, 2014, 11:45:27 PM
Porn takes up most of the space. His spank bank is massive. covering everything from A to Z
Title: Re: Help me patent this idea...
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on February 02, 2014, 04:45:31 PM
LOL, not yet but by the time my nefarious plans are complete I will. You'd be surprised the kinda stuff you can find behind warehouses at 2am.
