IBM argued that its patent, initially used to launch Prodigy, remains “fundamental to the efficient communication of Internet content.” Known as patent '849, that patent introduced “novel methods for presenting applications and advertisements in an interactive service that would take advantage of the computing power of each user’s personal computer (PC) and thereby reduce demand on host servers, such as those used by Prodigy,” which made it “more efficient than conventional systems.”

I’m torn, I want a better internet but I also want less ads and ad agencies can fuck off and not use my processor and power I paid for to show me ads I don’t want in the first place. Pay for your own shit!