Donations are tax-exempt so you can finance free stuff like openbsd and libressl.
Advertisements are a sneaky way to sell your visitors eyes to sneaky businesses. They are pollution. In all kinds of media they appear in, TV, Radio, Internet, books. They destroy the media they target - until people move on to more greener freer pastures, then the advertisements come and pollute everything, until the information is so diluted of content it is no longer serving as a media of information and instead only serves, the people selling advertisements, disinformation.
If you cant finance your website, the first option should be call for donations, if that doesnt work then bankrupt it, call it what it is, unsustainable business, rather than selling it to advertisers and selling your visitors out. That is actually a form of bankrupt, its just slower and everyone looses except the people selling ads, and they are so ashamed of it they dont even call it advertisement business - theyre always switching names, from propaganda to advertising to PR and social media marketing.
No, no they won't. Not my users, anyway, because I block your ads at the DNS resolver level by redirecting queries to my own Apache instance, which serves single pixel images or empty JS as necessary.
Despite protestations in TFA to the contrary, publishers CAN'T be trusted not to create a tunnel for bad actors via adservers. They don't have the level of control required to do so. If you want the $$$, change your business model. If it turns out that no-one wants to pay for your content, perhaps it's not worth anything?
I don't know how to break this to you, but this doesn't work. I'm running a completely standard installation of an ad-blocker with EasyList, and it blocks all ads on this site.
The problem with ads is when they are abused. Pop-ups, videos, scams, and so on. I think it might be nice to have some high-quality ads, especially if it contributes to high-quality free content.
Can anyone explain how this works? Won't Ad-Block or other ad blockers block them out? I've heard you can pay AdBlock to unblock your ads? Is that what's happening?
Ars Technica shows an "ad" to people using ad-blockers. I'm not sure of all the details, but they have the ad image binary inlined in the HTML, which makes it much harder to block.
It should be relatively simple to detect if an ad is blocked. Simply after load check for an element ID or such and see if it exists or not.
In my upcoming mysimpleads ad server release I've been careful not to use terms like ad or banner and keep it generic. I'm debating about using a per site key for element classes, but not sure if it's worth the little bit of extra overhead.
I use the MVPS Hosts File + gas mask on OS X instead of an ad blocker, and I went to the Dev-Metal home page to see if I would get presented with the add on the left, and I did not.
[+] [-] antocv|12 years ago|reply
NO. They are not.
Donations are tax-exempt so you can finance free stuff like openbsd and libressl.
Advertisements are a sneaky way to sell your visitors eyes to sneaky businesses. They are pollution. In all kinds of media they appear in, TV, Radio, Internet, books. They destroy the media they target - until people move on to more greener freer pastures, then the advertisements come and pollute everything, until the information is so diluted of content it is no longer serving as a media of information and instead only serves, the people selling advertisements, disinformation.
If you cant finance your website, the first option should be call for donations, if that doesnt work then bankrupt it, call it what it is, unsustainable business, rather than selling it to advertisers and selling your visitors out. That is actually a form of bankrupt, its just slower and everyone looses except the people selling ads, and they are so ashamed of it they dont even call it advertisement business - theyre always switching names, from propaganda to advertising to PR and social media marketing.
A world without advertising is possible.
[+] [-] jrabone|12 years ago|reply
Despite protestations in TFA to the contrary, publishers CAN'T be trusted not to create a tunnel for bad actors via adservers. They don't have the level of control required to do so. If you want the $$$, change your business model. If it turns out that no-one wants to pay for your content, perhaps it's not worth anything?
[+] [-] antocv|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] dublinben|12 years ago|reply
https://mediacru.sh/D8edJpM35tVb
[+] [-] ChrisGaudreau|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] theon144|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] dublinben|12 years ago|reply
https://mediacru.sh/D8edJpM35tVb
[+] [-] keehun|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] smackfu|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] quaffapint|12 years ago|reply
In my upcoming mysimpleads ad server release I've been careful not to use terms like ad or banner and keep it generic. I'm debating about using a per site key for element classes, but not sure if it's worth the little bit of extra overhead.
[+] [-] dljsjr|12 years ago|reply
I use the MVPS Hosts File + gas mask on OS X instead of an ad blocker, and I went to the Dev-Metal home page to see if I would get presented with the add on the left, and I did not.
[+] [-] smackfu|12 years ago|reply