If the cost of bandwidth is the main problem, is anybody anywhere trying to do anything about it?
If I said, "Use less bandwidth," would you call me an asshole?
How about, "design ads that don't suck up the bandwidth that you're using the ads to pay for" instead?
The early AdCritic site was simple and straightforward. One banner ad, medium graphics. The usual "best viewed with" collection of tiny icons. It loaded fast and quickly.
A month ago I went there for the first time in a long time, trying to find the Clinton "Last Days" movie. I was on a friend's computer, with no filters and all the graphics turned on. Five minutes later it was still retrieving streaming animated banner ads for all over the page, X10 popup and popunder ads were having their gory way with my eyeballs, and the actual text of the page wasn't done loading yet because all the high-bandwidth advertisments hadn't finished hoarding the network yet.
I gave up and got my Clinton video somewhere else.
-- You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
The real reason they shut down was because too many people were viewing their site with Junkbuster, and it just stopped paying the bills!
It's like some kind of Steven Wright joke: "I tried surf to adcritic.com with Junkbuster turned on. Junkbuster got so confused it took me to the doubleclick page..."
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If I said, "Use less bandwidth," would you call me an asshole?
How about, "design ads that don't suck up the bandwidth that you're using the ads to pay for" instead?
The early AdCritic site was simple and straightforward. One banner ad, medium graphics. The usual "best viewed with" collection of tiny icons. It loaded fast and quickly.
A month ago I went there for the first time in a long time, trying to find the Clinton "Last Days" movie. I was on a friend's computer, with no filters and all the graphics turned on. Five minutes later it was still retrieving streaming animated banner ads for all over the page, X10 popup and popunder ads were having their gory way with my eyeballs, and the actual text of the page wasn't done loading yet because all the high-bandwidth advertisments hadn't finished hoarding the network yet.
I gave up and got my Clinton video somewhere else.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
It's like some kind of Steven Wright joke: "I tried surf to adcritic.com with Junkbuster turned on. Junkbuster got so confused it took me to the doubleclick page..."
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